Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective: Book Launch of 'Justice framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice'

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Why are certain responses to past human rights violations considered instances of transitional justice while others are disregarded? This talk interrogates the history of the discourse and practice of the field to answer that question. Zunino argues that a number of characteristics inherited as transitional justice emerged as a discourse in the 1980s and 1990s have shaped which practices of the present and the past are now regarded as valid responses to past human rights violations.

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Marcos Zunino

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Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 25/06/2019

Duration: 01:01:04

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Un-Becoming a Victim: Between Historic Reminder and Hallucination, Geographical Document and Childhood Memory, Collective Tragedy and Personal Healing

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To Un-Become is a multimedia art project which explores the concept of un-becoming through revisiting Operation Storm in Yugoslavia and its consequences over two decades later.

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Sasa Rajsic

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Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 25/06/2019

Duration: 01:10:10

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Prospects for Meaningful Accountability for Rights Violations in Sri Lanka

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This panel discussion explores the issue of accountability in Sri Lanka using three lenses. Each lens will be applied to a specific human rights challenge that is associated with impunity in the country: violence against religious minorities, torture, and enforced disappearance.

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Kiran Grewal

Farzana Haniffa

Gehan Gunatilleke

Dharsha Jegatheswaran

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Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 25/06/2019

Duration: 01:20:05

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Witness Testimony and the Negotiation of 'Culture' at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

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Scholars reflecting on the participation of African witnesses in international trials have argued that 'culture' is an impediment. While some judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) supported this position, the majority of judges and lawyers placed emphasis on other impediments to witness testimony unrelated to Rwandan culture, including simultaneous interpretation, the question and answer format of witness examination, protection orders and the consequences of witnesses having given testimony in multiple trials. The paper assesses whether the consequences of these non-cultural impediments have been misrepresented as being due to 'culture' and how this relates to the essentialising and demeaning of 'culture' in domestic legal contexts.

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Nigel Eltringham

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international law

Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 25/06/2019

Duration: 00:54:49

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The Journalist Perspective: Low Expectations and Promising Trends in Transitional Justice

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Thierry Cruvellier, journalist and author, is the editor of JusticeInfo.net and an Op-ed contributor to The New York Times. For more than twenty years, he has been covering war crimes trials before international tribunals for Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Bosnia and Cambodia, as well as national justice efforts in Colombia and the Balkans. More recently he has covered the trial of Hissène Habré before the Extraordinary African Chambers, in Senegal.

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Thierry Cruvellier

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Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 25/06/2019

Duration: 00:50:59

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Book Launch 'When Political Transitions Work: Reconciliation as Interdependence'

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In 'When Political Transitions Work', Fanie du Toit, who has been a participant and close observer in post-conflict developments throughout Africa for decades, offers a new theory for why South Africa's reconciliation worked and why its lessons remain relevant for other nations emerging from civil conflicts.

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Fanie du Toit

Kate O'Regan

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Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 25/06/2019

Duration: 00:39:28

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Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice

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In the aftermath of the ‘no’ victory in the Colombian peace plebiscite, great emphasis has been placed on youth movements’ push for peace. However, statistics on violent groups in Latin America show that these groups are largely made of young people. The position of young people at the crux between peacebuilding and perpetuation of violence needs to be contextually unpacked. While studies have tended to focus on youth movements, the question of how non-organised, (self-)marginalised youths relate to peacebuilding is largely unaddressed. Based on 9 months of ethnographic fieldwork with outcast adolescents in the conflict-affected town of San Carlos and marginal neighbourhoods in the close-by city Medellín, this paper addresses this gap.

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Elena Butti

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Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 25/06/2019

Duration: 00:43:46

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The Arrest of a Head of State Pursuant to an ICC Warrant. The Al-Bashir Case

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Prof Lattanzi’s presentation will first deal with the question of immunities of high-ranking state officials as posed by the Commission created in 1919 by the Paris Peace Conference. In a next step, it will illustrate the facts of the Al-Bashir case with a particular emphasis on the questions posed by Jordan before the ICC appeals bench. The last and most sensitive part of the presentation will consider the argument that the ICC is not endowed with coercive powers in situations when the Rome Statute obligates a State to arrest and surrender to the Court a high-ranking state official.

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Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 25/06/2019

Duration: 01:21:18

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The ICC Rohingya Case: Radical or Routine?

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Myanmar's mass-atrocities against the Rohingya minority, qualified by UN sources as a genocide, is one of the most pressing accountability challenges of our time. This has resulted in a mass-exodus of up to 1 million refugees in neighbouring Bangladesh with harrowing stories of violence. Given the failure of the UN Security Council to make a Chapter VII referral to the ICC, what options are available for eradicating impunity?

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Payam Akhavan

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criminal law

Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 25/06/2019

Duration: 00:33:36

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International Criminal Law and Border Control: The Expressive Role of the Deportation and Extradition of Rwandan Citizens

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Dr Nicola Palmer analyzes the role that international criminal law in the extradition, deportation or domestic prosecution of Rwandan nationals.

This paper draws on an independently generated dataset of 120 cases concerning 100 Rwandan nationals decided in 20 countries around the world. This dataset enables an analysis of the role that international criminal law is playing in their extradition, deportation or domestic prosecution. It argues that the differences in legal reasoning across these cases are underpinned by the different types of expressive work done by these legal proceeding. These cases communicate not only an on-going commitment to recognising the universal wrong of genocide, but also more ambiguous messaging about what constitutes a fair trial in Rwanda, who constitutes a ‘criminal migrant’ and, to a Rwandan audience, the transnational penal reach of the Rwandan state.

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Nicola Palmer

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