The Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity presents a two-session conference that will answer some of the questions pertaining to the concepts and frameworks of transitional justice. Register online.
This conference will address ideas and concepts that have ensued from the debate that has taken place in the past twenty years over how to introduce mechanisms of transitional justiceand whether international ones, such as the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice offer adequate capacity and authority for ensuring justice in the most egregious cases.
Session 1: Transitional Justice Concepts and Frameworks
10:00am-12:30pm
Introduction
Steve McDonald, Consulting Director, the Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Keynote Speaker
David Tolbert, President, International Center for Transitional Justice
Panelists
Mark Goodale, Associate Professor, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
Priscilla Hayner, Senior Adviser, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Wendy Lambourne, Senior Lecturer and Academic Coordinator, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney
Moderator
TBA
Luncheon
12:30pm-1:30pm
Invited Keynote Speaker
Reverend Frank Chikane, Former Director General, Office of the President, South Africa
Session 2: Comparative Case Studies
1:30pm-4:00pm
Introduction
Steve McDonald, Consulting Director, the Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Panelists
Douglass Cassel, former Legal Adviser to the United Nations Commission on Truth for El Salvador, and Professor of Law, Notre Dame University
Jennifer Easterday, Trial Monitor for the Special Court on Sierra Leone, War Crimes Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Burgess, Asia Director, International Center for Transitional Justice, and former Director of Human Rights, UNTAET and UNMISET missions in Timor-Leste
Richard Joseph, former Democracy Adviser for the Carter Center
Moderator
Martin Kimani, Deputy Director, Ansari Africa Center at the Atlantic Council