Activity Report 2020
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SII Annual Report – 2020 + Report presented to the Board of Directors of the Siracusa International Institute SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMPLETED IN 2020 Meeting – December 5, 2020 SCHEMATIC SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES ORGANIZED AND CO-ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES 8 NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS 647 COUNTRIES INVOLVED 7 UNIVERSITIES INVOLVED 12 COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS 12 PUBLICATIONS 1 HOSTED ACTIVITIES 1 (WITH AROUND 40 PARTICIPANTS) EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES ATTENDED 10 Summary of Activities 2018-19-20 70 60 50 Organized Activities 40 Countries Involved 30 Universities Involved 20 10 Collaborating Organizations 0 2018 2019 2020 1 SII Annual Report – 2020 Countries involved (7): AUSTRALIA – BELGIUM – BULGARIA – FRANCE – ITALY – SERBIA – UNITED KINGDOM Universities involved (12): University of Trento University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ University of Palermo University of Rome 'Luiss Guido Carli’ University of Catania University of Verona University of Reggio Calabria University ‘Cattolica del S. Cuore’ of Milan University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’ University of Rome ‘Unitelma Sapienza’ University of Macerata University of Padua Collaborating Organizations (12): International Association of Penal Law (IAPL/ AIDP) United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network (PNI) European Commission Italian Department of Penitentiary Administration Philip Morris International (PMI) Italian High School of the Judiciary (SSM) La.PE.C. (Permanent Examination and Counter-Examination Laboratory) National Bar Council Global Committee for the Rule of Law "Marco Pannella" Luigi Einaudi Foundation Italian Radical Party Government Offices of Sweden Publications (1): Closing the Implementation Gap: Criminal justice responses to illicit trade in South Eastern Europe and associated challenges (Siracusa, Italy, 2020), English 2 SII Annual Report – 2020 THE ORGANIZATION – December 2020 Board of Directors Advisory Board Judge Rosario Aitala Mr. Michael Greco Judge Bernard Leroy Mr. Jean-Pierre Picca Executive Committee Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp Dr. Franco Roberti Judge Christine Van Den Wyngaert (designated by the President) Vice President PRESIDENT Paola Severino Jean-François Thony Ulrika Sundberg (elected by the Board) Secretary General * (elected by the Board) Ezechia Paolo Reale (elected by the Board) Director General (to be appointed by the Board or the Ex. Com.) Acting Director General Filippo Musca (appointed by the President/Dir. Gen) PROGRAMS LOGISTICS COMMUNICATIONS AND ACCOUNTING EXTERNAL RELATIONS Staff Office Manager Consultants Accountant Assia Buonocore Communication Manager Stefania Mangiafico Program Officer John Sellar (appointed by the President/ Dir. Gen) Gabriele Pulvirenti (appointed by the President) Stefania Lentinello Stefano Betti (appointed by the President/ Dir. Gen) (appointed by the President/ Dir. Gen) Gary Hill Labor Consultant Clerk Senior Legal Officer Sebastiano Ferla Tobias Freeman Petronela Sulincean (appointed by the President/Dir. (appointed by the President/ Dir. Gen) Gen) Legal Officers & Research Fellows Flavio Bellio, Fellow Kristen Zornada (until 30/06/20), Legal and Policy Officer Alessandro Ercolani (until 31/12/19), Fellow * In case of absence or incapacity of the Director General, his functions are carried out by the Secretary General and by the Acting Director General 3 SII Annual Report – 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 5 2. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES ........................................................................................................... 6 2.1 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS .............................................................................................. 7 2.2 NATIONAL PROGRAMS .......................................................................................................... 8 3. EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES .................................................................................................... 8 3.1 SPECIALIZATION COURSES .................................................................................................. 9 3.2 FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ...................................................................................................... 10 4. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION ................................... 10 4.1 TRAIN TRAINING ................................................................................................................... 10 5. COMMUNICATION ................................................................................................................... 10 6. CONCLUSIONS .......................................................................................................................... 13 DETAILED LIST OF ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................ 16 HOSTED ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................... 18 ACTIVITIES ATTENDED BY THE INSTITUTE’S STAFF ..................................................... 19 4 SII Annual Report – 2020 REPORT ON THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 1. INTRODUCTION 2020 should have represented for the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights a year of consolidation of what was built in recent years, in particular in the last two, a year of consolidation and restart in all three main sectors of activity of the Institute. The technical assistance projects in progress had achieved excellent outcomes, both with regard to the project results and to the strengthening of institutional relations; as regards the higher education programs, numerous and substantial renovations had been planned. Furthermore, the elaboration of the main scientific research work produced by the Institute was nearing completion; this work was to be presented to public and private partners in order to secure further funding and carry out new activities. Unfortunately, due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the lockdown imposed in Italy from March to May and the travel restrictions in most of Europe and the world, it was necessary to cancel, or radically rethink, most of the activities scheduled. More in details: In March, the Institute was supposed to organize the final event of the "SEE-IMPACT" project. During the second Regional Strategic Dialogue, the regional report should have been presented in front of over 100 representatives of the highest national institutions of the 12 countries involved in the project, as well as several officials of international organizations. During this event, the "Declaration of Siracusa on the fight against illicit trade” would have been signed. Despite several attempts to postpone it, in the end it was decided, also in agreement with the funding body, to organize the closing event in the form of a simple international webinar. The initiative took place on November 6, 2020 and was attended, as speakers "external" to the project, by the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor, Dr. Federico Cafiero de Raho, and by Professor Paola Severino, Vice President of the Institute and Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Corruption. The event itself was a success beyond expectations, and the report "Closing the Implementation Gap", presented during the webinar, has already been shared and made available to a wide audience composed of academia, public institutions (ministries, prosecutors’ offices, training schools), international organizations, national and international experts, law enforcement agencies and specialized press, both in the full version in English and in the “Executive Summary” version in Italian, French and in 7 local languages. As regards the three main higher education programs of the Institute - course for young penalists, course for prosecutors, course for PhD candidates - given the very nature of the activities, it was decided to organize exclusively the course for PhD candidates, which was actively attended by 75 doctoral students from 28 universities. The difficult and painful decision to postpone both other specialization courses to 2021 was taken in agreement with the Institute's partners for two main reasons: firstly, the pedagogical and organizational complexities of managing entirely online two courses which required a full immersion of the participants for over 50 hours of frontal teaching, and in addition, the impossibility of replicating what has always been the distinctive feature and strength of these two courses, that is, the unique possibility of creating and strengthening formal and informal networks, both from a professional and personal point of view. 5 SII Annual Report – 2020 With regard to scientific research and policy development (“M-CIT” project), once agreed with the funding body a project extension and relevant funding (for further 12 months), the drafting of the guidelines was completed. The guidelines will be published in early 2021 and shared with the international community (public and private) through a dedicated IT portal. In 2020, efforts were also made to further strengthen the Institute's relations at national and international level. In this regard, it is important to point out that the three-year collaboration agreement with the High School of the Judiciary will be renewed shortly, and that a memorandum of collaboration with the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate is currently being finalized. Direct