Category: Events

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Whither Transitional Justice? US policy, past experience and future prospects

    Zachary Kaufman in conversation with Rachel Kerr Monday 9 May, 1200-1330 War Studies Meeting Room, K6.07 King’s Building, Strand Campus King’s College London Zachary D. Kaufman, JD, Ph.D., is a Fellow (starting July 1, Senior Fellow) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government as well as a Visiting Fellow at both Yale Law…

  • The Visual Jurisprudence of Transition: Art at the Constitutional Court in South Africa

    Tuesday 1 November, 1300-1400 War Studies Meeting Room, K6.07, King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London Speaker: Eliza Garnsey, University of Cambridge Chair: Dr Rachel Kerr, King’s College London The Constitutional Court of South Africa stands on the site of several former notorious prisons where ‘virtually every important political leader in South African history from…