Tag: Transitional Justice
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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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Art & Reconciliation: Conflict, Culture and Community
Our latest project, ‘Art and Reconciliation: Conflict, Culture and Community’ is an innovative collaboration between King’s College London, the London School of Economics and the University of the Arts in London that aims to improve our understanding of a major current and future global security challenge. This inter-disciplinary project combines history, conflict resolution methodologies, art and…
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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…
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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…