Month: May 2017
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The Mobilisation of South African Civil Society in the Al Bashir matter
Professor Mia Swart 5 June 2017, 1700-1830 K-1.56, King’s Building, King’s College London Registration here: http://bit.ly/2rvBJF Since the start of the controversial Al-Bashir saga in South Africa, South African civil society mobilisation played a vital role in alerting the South African government to its duties as a state party to the Rome Statute. Swart’s paper…
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Context matters! TJ ‘mosaics’ not blueprints
The ICTJ have published a new volume discussing the importance of context in Transitional Justice implementation: Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies. The book is wide-ranging and is the culmination of a multi-year project, including a series of workshops in New York in 2014. The book stresses the importance of understanding…