Speaker

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Ms Renata Tardioli, Deputy Head of Mission for Amnesty, Reintegration and Human Rights, Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) (Aceh-MM profile »)

Date

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Friday 24th February 2012

Time

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1pm (with a sandwich lunch, sponsored by Cambridge University Press, from 12:30pm)

Venue

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Finley Library, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Road, Cambridge 

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Lecture Topic: The lecture will present an overview of the EU's current efforts in conflict management and the rule of law. Specific focus will be given to the monitoring mission in Aceh (Indonesia). Factors behind its success and reasons why the EU intervenes in countries outside its membership will also be discussed. The principles and scope of electoral observation and the EU role in this field will also feature in the lecture along with an overview of main electoral missions and examples of observers’ reports from Armenia, Maldives, Tanzania and others.

Renata Tardioli holds a Degree in Law from University of Perugia and a Master Degree (MPhil) in International Relations at the University of Cambridge, UK. She also attended courses of International Law at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and the University of Texas at Dallas. After four years’ experience in private legal practice and with IDLO (International Development Law Organization) in Rome, she joined the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia in 1992 as a District Electoral Supervisor. She was in charge of organising, supervising and monitoring the United Nations sponsored elections in the troubled province of Kampong Thom. Throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s Ms. Tardioli has served in several United Nations and European Union missions world-wide providing legal assistance in electoral and democratisation processes, referendum and constitutional revision as well as organizing training and leadership programmes.

Ms Tardioli has observed and supervised elections in more than 20 countries. She participated in a number of international conferences and lectures in various Institutions and Organisations such as the training courses of the International Training Programme for Conflict Management (ITPCM) in Pisa, at the University of Roma 3 and most recently at the University of Cambridge in the UK.

Useful links:

Aceh Monitoring Mission website »

EC Election Observation website: How to become an EU Observer »

EC/ EuropeAid website: Election observation information »

UN Peacekeeping Operations website »

Audio

Approx. running time: 47 minutes

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