Author: Bintou Sy
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Assessing the ICTY’s legacy
Last week (22-24 June 2017), Sarajevo hosted the ICTY Legacy Dialogues Conference, organized by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in order to discuss what it had accomplished before it closes its doors this December. After two decades, 161 accused, a number of complex trials finished, and with zero fugitives remaining, over…
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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…
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CfP: Reconciliation After War (Crimes): Historical Perspectives
Interdisciplinary workshop, King’s College London, 30 November – 1 December 2017. Reconciliation is often cited as a key objective in the aftermath of violent conflict, where goals of peace, justice and reconciliation are seen as not only complementary but mutually reinforcing. But it is often unclear what, precisely, is meant by reconciliation, how, exactly, different…
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Three Weddings and 8,000 funerals
Command and Responsibility at Srebrenica revisited: The Mladić and Karadžić Trials and the Legacy of the Yugoslavia Tribunal. Professor James Gow, King’s College London Location War Studies Meeting Room (K. 6.07) Category Lecture When 21/03/2017 (18:00-19:30) Registration URL http://bit.ly/2mjlDOF In 2013, Professor James Gow was awarded a 3-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to examine the…