Closing ceremony for the Normandy Chair for Peace #D1

1st september 2023

Région Normandie – Abbaye-aux-Dames (Auditorium) (in person and via distance learning)

8:45 am : Welcome of the participants

9:10 am Official opening

• Words of welcome from the institutions supporting the Chair: CNRS, Université Caen Normandie, MRSH
• Welcome by the Chair’s scientific leaders: The process by which the Chair was created and
• its place on the international stage at the heart of fast-growing subjects.
• On-line welcome by the Chair leader: A. OPOSA
• Welcome video message by Prof. N. ROBINSON
• Welcome and general presentation of the Chair by E. GAILLARD

9:30 am 4 years of the Normandy Chair of excellence for peace

F.-X. PIOLLAUD, Vice-President of the Normandy Region, co-founder of the Normandy World Forum for Peace

Stage 1: a research of excellence on innovative & ground-breaking topics

9:45-11:00 am: The dynamics of the legal effectiveness of environmental law

Dir. M. PRIEUR, Ch. BASTIN

11:00-11:15 am : Q&A

11:15-11:30 am Coffee break

11:30AM-1PM : The dynamics of conjunction of the decoloniality of law/rights

Dir. L.M. GUTIERREZ (responsable scientifique ligne justicscientific leader of the transitional justice line), L. CLOUD (scientific leader of the indigenous people line) & E. GAILLARD

• Mission to Colombia February 2020 (guests L. GUTIERREZ, Claudia PINEDA, V. TAFUR).
• COVID => Conversion into webinars and organisation of a series of webinars on
• weaving transitional justice in Colombia (L. BRACONNIER & L.M. GUTIERREZ) => deliverable.
• An attempt to develop PA teaching kits for secondary school students, E. GAILLARD , A. NEVEU, E. FRULEUX..
• Thesis topic formulated by E. Gaillard:
• For a decoloniality of the notion of property to the benefit of Nature (thesis now directed outside the University of Caen).
• Intergenerational dialogues with indigenous peoples : H. COUMANS, L. CLOUD
• Transitional justice and indigenous peoples : Leslie CLOUD
• The participation and then organisation of highlevel events as part of the Permanent Forum of IPs New York- Santiago – New York.
• Summary video: prepared by M. SULTAN, University of Lahore.
• Participation in the commemoration of 100 years in Geneva (UN expert mechanism on IPs), L. CLOUD.

1.00 pm: LUNCH at the Abbaye-auxdames

2.15 – 3.30 pm: The dynamics of the substantial transformation of living organisms- Bioethics

Dir. B. BÉVIÈRE BOYER, A. CAYOL et E. GAILLARD

• > Introductory remarks and continuation of work initiated within the Risks Unit (A. CAYOL and E. GAILLARD) : work
• comparative perspectives on transhumanism and the major concepts of law in the face of transhumanism Mare & Martin. 2020
• Conference Transhumanism in the era of ameliorative medicine, dir. A. CAYOL, B. BEVIERE BOYER & E. GAILLARD
• Transanimalism conference, dir. B. BEVIERE BOYER, A. CAYOL & E. GAILLARD
• Transterre conference, dir. E. GAILLARD, B. BEVIERE BOYER & A. CAYOL
• Conference The environmental dimension of AI with regard to the rights of future generations, dir. B. BEVIERE BOYER, A. CAYOL & E. GAILLARD. Guest C. BYK (President of the UNESCO’s French commission on Bioethics)
• Presentations and video extracts

3:30-3:45 pm: Q&A

3:45 pm: Coffee break

4:00 – 5:00 pm: The dynamics of recognition of animal sentience and animal

Dir. A. QUESNE

• General presentation of the line of research and the legal context
• Review of activities carried out under the patronage of J.-P. COSTA, former President of the European Court of Human Rights (passing on 27 April 2023):
  • 23 October 2020, in person at the MRSH: International and multidisciplinary conference « Animal sensitivity: legal approaches and transdisciplinary issues »
  • 10 December 2021, distance learning: International and multidisciplinary conference « Which laws/rights for animals? »
  • Creation of 2 websites dedicated to the conferences, including videos of all the papers, press articles published on the conferences, etc.
  • 9 March 2023: Publication of the proceedings of the first conference, Animal sensitivity. Legal and transdisciplinary approaches, Mare & Martin, preface by J.-P. COSTA
  • 22 June 2023: Publication of the Proceedings of the second conference, Which laws/ rights for animals? prefaces by J.-P. Costa and L. Romeiro Dias, MP in the XVth legislature, tabled and rapporteur for the bill to strengthen the fight against animal abuse adopted on 30 November 2021
• Outlooks: 25 May 2023: A. QUESNE is appointed Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France to hold the Innovation Chair (2023-2028). This will enable the work initiated and undertaken within the Normandy Chair for Peace to be continued, deepened and developed.

5.00 – 5:30 pm: Environmental ethics for law practitioners

Dir. J. SOHNLE et C. BOURIAU

• Objective of the line of research and link with the message of peace with the Earth
• Presentation of the table of contents
• Works to be published in English, French and Spanish

5:30 – 6:00 pm : The ONE HEALTH approach

Dir. M. PRIEUR

• Presentation of the working group
• Presentation of the draft agreement
• Deliverable and scientific diplomacy actions (sent to OMS delegates).

6:00 – 6:15 pm : Conclusions from the first day – Topics of excellence on the rise internationally