Western Sahara – News on an old issue
International Multidisciplinary Colloquium
Scientific Director: Marjorie Beulay
Picardie Jules Verne University
May 27 and 28, 2019 at the Logis du Roy – Amiens
Monday, May 27, 2019
Opening Remarks
- Lucie Delabie (Associate Professor of Public Law and Director of the UFR of Law and Political Science – Université Picardie Jules Verne)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=SWW74WM64773
Introductory remarks
- Marjorie Beulay (MCF in public law Université Picardie Jules Verne)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=DGXX3WKM7ADN
First part – Which territory for Western Sahara?
Chair/Discussant: Lucie Delabie (Associate Professor of Public Law and Director of the UFR of Law and Political Science – Université Picardie Jules Verne)
- Approche historique du territoire, Pierre Vermeren (Professor of History – Université Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=K5BU1S6NS7N1
- Approche coloniale du territoire, Carlos Ruiz Miguel (Professor of Law – Université de Saint Jacques de Compostelle ; member of CESO and OUISO)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=RU9XR45RN6W7
- Approche marocaine du territoire, Yahia Zoubir (Professor of International Relations – Kedge Business School ; member of OUISO)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=4XYXURSHYSNO
- L’intérêt économique du territoire du Sahara occidental, Philippe Leclercq (for APSO)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=AGY2258UUHSR
- Approche juridique de la notion de territoire, Thibaut Fleury Graff (Associate Professor of Public Law – Université de Versailles Saint Quentin).
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=W2H6Y66GNH82
Second part – Which government for Western Sahara?
Chair/Discussant – Céline Husson-Rochcongar (Lecturer in public law HDR – Université Picardie Jules Verne).
- Approche juridique croisée internationale et constitutionnelle de la notion de gouvernement, Thibaud Mulier (Lecturer in public law at the Université Paris Nanterre)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=83G9RG16O9D7
- Approche pratique de la représentation du Sahara occidental, S.E. Oubi Bouchraya (Polisario Front Representative in France) ;
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=ND17KS3B5MAR
- Le Sahara occidental dans le contexte maghrébin, Khadija Mohsen-Finan (Political scientist, teacher-researcher at the Université Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne) ;
- L’effet en France des actes et décisions de la RASD, François Mailhé (Associate Professor of Private Law – Université Picardie Jules Verne)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=26DNWX1HGG36
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Third part – What population for Western Sahara?
Chair/Discussant : Marjorie Beulay (Lecturer in Public Law at the Université Picardie Jules Verne)
Translation of Sahrawi affiliation
- Les populations du Sahara occidental dans l’Histoire, Francesco Correale (Historian – CNRS, UMR 7324 CITERES, Tours) ;
- La notion de « nationalité » sahraouie, Hélène Raspail ( Lecturer in Public Law – Université du Mans)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=O817D14ODS3R
- Les changements sociaux affectant une population exilée, Alice Wilson (Lecturer in Anthropology – Université du Sussex) ;
A displaced population
- Enjeux de documentation d’une population en mouvement, Sébastien Boulay et Camille Tanné (Lecturer in Anthropology and Master’s student – Université Paris Descartes and members of OUISO)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=9D5AM35SMG7M
- Enjeux humanitaires de l’action dans les camps sahraouis, Virginia Mura (Former advocacy officer in the Tindouf camps – OXFAM)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=5AGMMS2KR2S9
- Photographier les camps, Fethi Sahraoui (Photographer – 2017 Winner of the Friends of IMA Prize for Contemporary Creation)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=39DH285A7HGN
- Panel discussion : What role for the Saharawi diaspora and its supporters?
Chair/Discussant : Dominique Connan (Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université Picardie Jules Verne)
- L’action en faveur de la diaspora sahraouie, Philippe Leclercq (Co-president of the Association of Solidarity with the Saharawi People of Lorraine)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=KX8WHKMS722H
- Civil society action with the European institutions, El Mahjoub Hussein Emhammad Mleiha (Coordinator of Saharawi civil society action and member of WSRW) – in English
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=XRB5YR9U7UNN
- Une population réfugiée, testimony of Omar Laaouissid – in Arabic with translation;
- La défense des prisonniers sahraouis, Me Olfa Ouled (Lawyer at the Paris Bar)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=S9M54N9K4X99
Fourth part – What role for international organisations in relation to Western Sahara?
Chair/Discussant : Aurélien Raccah (Lecturer at the Catholic University of Lille and Lawyer at the Paris Bar)
- La question sahraouie aux Nations Unies, Francesco Bastagli (Head of Mission in EUBAM and Former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Western Sahara and Head of MINURSO) ;
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=76B4O2BOSODM
- La question sahraouie à l’Union africaine, Makane Moïse Mbengue (Professor of Law at the Université de Genève) ;
- Le rôle de l’Union européenne, Aurélien Raccah (Lecturer at the Catholic University of Lille and Lawyer at the Paris Bar)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=O3S7NRY5U6BS
- La représentation du peuple sahraoui devant la CJUE, Me Gilles Devers (Lawyer for the Polisario Front before the Court of Justice)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=7YM3MH2XG22O
Panel discussion: The European Union and Western Sahara, what relations to come?
Chair/Discussant : Rémy Hernu (Associate Professor of Public Law at the Université Picardie Jules Verne)
- La position de la Commission européenne dans le contentieux de la Cour, Fernando Castillo de la Torre ( Legal Adviser at the European Commission) ;
- Rapports de force et enjeux au Parlement européen, Raphaël Fisera (Political Adviser to the European Parliamentary Group Les Verts/Alliance Libre Européenne) ;
- Présentation critique du nouvel accord de libre-échange UE-Maroc, Manuel Devers (Polisario Front Council before the EUJC) ;
- Quelles conséquences pour les entreprises ?, Aurélien Raccah (Lecturer at the Catholic University of Lille and Lawyer at the Paris Bar)
https://webtv.u-picardie.fr/watch_video.php?v=1WAYU6AMYUG9
General conclusions
- Geneviève Bastid-Burdeau (Emeritus Professor at the Sorbonne Law School, Member of the Institute of International Law and of the Curatorium of the Academy of International Law in La Haye)