Transitional justice refers to the ways countries emerging from periods of conflict and repression address large scale or systemic human rights violations so numerous and so serious that the normal justice system will not be able to provide an adequate response.
- International Center for Transitional Justice
The Transitional Justice Project (TJP) in the Program in International Relations at New York University builds on the interdisciplinary strengths to provide rigorous analysis of transitional justice from a scholarly perspective with an eye to the formation of policy. Located just downtown from the United Nations the Transitional Justice Project works closely with visiting international scholars and policy-makers from around the world to find innovative solutions to the advance of justice in the wake of severe human rights abuses. The project hosts occasional workshops on transitional justice, as well as public lectures by visiting scholars.
The Transitional Justice Project was supervised by Former IR Program Director, Professor Michael John Williams, and was directed by Professor Arnaud Kurze and Professor Ruti Teitel.
Friday, November 10th, 2017
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This one-day workshop brings together scholars, practitioners and students to discuss human security and post-authoritarian, post-conflict justice in a post-Arab Spring context. The wave of revolutionary uprisings and now civil wars across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, but also persistent conflict on the African continent, including the Horn and Central Africa, and persecutions in Asia, such as Rohingya in Myanmar or Uyghur in Western China, put the problem of protection of human individuals and minority groups from violence and the fear of violence on center stage. Beyond the problems of protecting the most vulnerable there are many other questions about rule of law and accountability for grave human rights violations and the challenges of reconciliatory, local efforts to rebuild the broken socio-economic and socio-cultural ties that must also be addressed. Drawing from case studies across the MENA region and beyond, this workshop aims to provide a space to explore these different questions, drawing from a critical, interdisciplinary perspective.
Participants include Ariel Ahram, Tugba Basaran, Bonnie Brennan, Eduardo González Cueva, Christian De Vos, Anthony Dworkin, John Fousek, Mary Kaldor, Arnaud Kurze, Hanny Megally, Luis Moreno Ocampo, Asli Peker, Iavor Rangelov, Chandra Lekha Sriram, Ruti Teitel, Leslie Vinjamuri, and Michael John Williams. For speaker bios, please visit the Transitional Justice Conference website. Please RSVP here to attend.