Sentences with phrase «transitional justice»

By contrast, transitional justice offers mechanisms for a more conservative conception of transition, confined within the realms of criminal law and political reform.

In most successful transitional justice cases, one common condition is the existence of the political will to propel the process.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is one of several tools in the process of transitional justice.

The panel will explore what is needed to help both countries achieve greater social cohesion and lasting peace, and will conclude by considering whether lessons learned from Mali and Côte d`Ivoire have implications for transitional justice processes in other countries where ABA ROLI is working, such as Burundi, the Central African Republic, and Mauritania.

However well - intentioned their efforts then, a warning note must be sounded to those interested in transitional justice in Egypt today.

The Egyptian revolution's demands, however contested, transcended the bounds of reformist transitional justice practice.

Merging educational programs like Facing History's with transitional justice efforts can be a powerful approach with the potential to support youth to become active global citizens who make positive, informed decisions.

If the Mubarak regime's violations outstrip conventional transitional justice provisions, then the assumption that Egyptian society needs an education in it appears flawed.

Merging educational programs like Facing History's with transitional justice efforts can be a powerful approach to support youth to become active global citizens who make positive, informed decisions.

However, it does include sophisticated transitional justice mechanisms, according to which those involved in atrocious crimes will be held accountable for their deeds, including through prison sentences.

First, transitional justice precedents offer the necessary prescriptions for Egypt at this time.

World War I History Divides Balkan Schoolchildren Denis Dzidic, Marija Ristic, Milka Domanovic, Josip Ivanovic, Edona Peci, Sinisa Jakov Marusic, Balkan Transitional Justice

So it was a pleasure to finally get a chance to hear about some of her research, which she presented a few days ago at Mansfield College's Topical Symposium and Transitional Justice Seminar Series (for those of you at a loose end, she is giving a similar talk tonight in the DPIR, 17:00, seminar room D).

Egyptian rights activists have resourcefully incorporated transitional justice principles into their campaigns, while aiming at more far - reaching goals and showing their international colleagues how to support them.

So the second set features three volumes — Conflict and Crisis, Rights and Justice, and Poverty and Development — that roughly translate into peace, development and human rights, but that take a broader view of what these areas encompass, with issues such as arms control, humanitarian assistance and transitional justice covered.

At this crucial time, ASF co-organised a national conference last week: «The role of civil society and of the state in achieving the objectives of transitional justice post-IVD.»

Executive editors are Jameel Jaffer, founding director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, concurrently the Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law at the University of Ulster's Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Beth Van Schaack, a fellow with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University.

Dr Leena Grover is a Canadian lawyer with research interests in the areas of international criminal law, human rights, the law of international peace and security as well as transitional justice.

► The International Leadership Association (ILA), now focusing on transitional justice and peacebuilding, is seeking abstracts for its book Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice Leadership in the 21st Century: The Role of Leaders and Followers.

In Australia the surviving title approach to transitional justice requires the Indigenous community to prove in a court or tribunal that colonisation caused them no material injury.

Please join ABA ROLI «s Country Director in Mali, Olivier Kambala wa Kambala, for a discussion on Mali «s transitional justice process, drawing from his most recent work to integrate community - driven priorities into national reconciliation efforts.

And yet, in transitional justice practice, critiques of crony capitalist interests as culpable are rare.

Her research interests include the foreign policy making of developing states, as well as nationalism in Turkey and the Arab world, and her work has appeared in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Palestine Studies, and the International Journal of Transitional Justice, among other venues.

Works to provide legal research, assistance and education on different legal topics, and specialise in transitional justice and the monitoring of the electoral system.

Today, Egypt's transition is at best suspended, and over the past months, transitional justice mechanisms like trials and reparations have been selectively developed by a state elite that is untransformed.

To start, the agenda of the national dialogue committee in Yemen was very rich, covering a variety of topics that range from national identity, governance, state - building and transitional justice.

Her research focuses on the rule of law and transitional justice in the former Yugoslavia and Central Europe.

[2] See for example Erin K. Baines, «The Haunting of Alice: Local Approaches to Justice and Reconciliation in Northern Uganda», The International Journal of Transitional Justice, (2007), 1 (1): 91 - 114 and Paul Omach, «NGO Chiefs: Local Institutions, NGOs and Peacebuilding in northern Uganda», Paper presented at Africa Research Forum, Centre for African Studies Cambridge, 29 April 2015

Indeed, the revolution is further proof that there is no «one - size - fits - all» remedy for transitional justice: it is preferable to promote «local» formulae in light of global experience, rather than vice versa.

Meanwhile, political and legal activists urged him to use his position to free those in military prisons since 2011, that is, to begin what might resemble a transitional justice process earnestly.

Today, as varying levels of mobilization recall Mubarak's last years in power, the call for transitional justice may have to become a strategy for political pressure in Egypt, before it can become a process for genuine change.

Meanwhile, amongst international and Egyptian human rights organisations, a more contained conversation began on the practice and precedents of transitional justice.

But beyond these transitional justice - related themes, they also demanded representative government, autonomy from Washington in policymaking, and social justice.

She is the author of «Beyond Conventional Transitional Justice: Egypt's 2011 Revolution and the Absence of Political Will» in the International Journal of Transitional Justice, which is free to read for a limited time.

First, as with the US occupation in Iraq, and NATO in Kosovo, transitional justice practice rarely highlights the accountability of external actors.

The NTC, therefore, has few judicial officials it can rely on to prosecute Saif's case in a way that would demonstrate to international observers that he can receive a fair trial in Libya, which does not bode well for the thousands of other prisoners awaiting trial in the transitional justice process.

The program's long - standing commitment to the problems of human rights and the legacy of apartheid in South Africa led it to help found the African Transitional Justice Research Network (ATJRN) to assist local researchers and civil society organizations in African countries to effectively evaluate transitional justice mechanisms and strengthen human rights advocacy on the African continent.

In her «Map of Peacebuilding» Schirch addresses four categories of peacebuilding: waging conflict nonviolently, reducing direct violence, building capacities and transforming relationships, where she placed trauma healing, following by conflict transformation, restorative justice, transitional justice, governance and policymaking (Schirch, 2004, 26).

The program will very concretely provide my girls with the tools for resolving conflict and repairing harm and will be grounded in a historical study of transitional justice.

Prior to Avaaz he lived in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and other countries in conflict, and worked for the International Crisis Group, the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and Res Publica.

This is the Transitional Justice way.

Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies Summer Schools on international criminal law, American law, international children's rights, human rights and transitional justice, and women, peace and security

«Reparations under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and Reparative Justice Theory», 3 International Journal of Transitional Justice 250 (2009).

Established in 2013 to steer the transitional justice process in Tunisia, the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) has begun the final year of its mandate.