On 25 April 2012, the German Institute for Human Rights, the Nuremberg Human Rights Centre and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg co-hosted an international conference on enforced disappearances in Berlin. This documentation provides a retrospective of the conference. The hosts’ intention behind the conference was to bring together a select group of international experts from the fields of human rights and public international law to discuss a number of core issues and toraise public awareness with regard to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED).