An intensive seminar aimed at enhancing research agendas and teaching methodologies of university professors and other education professional
Kampala, Uganda
January 17-20, 2007
The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), in collaboration with the Refugee Law Project at Makerere University Faculty of Law, will host an intensive 3-day residential seminar for professors, researchers, and advanced MA and PhD students in the Great Lakes region to discuss transitional justice.1 While policy makers and human rights practitioners in the Great Lakes region have begun to grapple with issues related to transitional justice (TJ) in their work, there is a clear demand from the academic community in this region to incorporate TJ into its teaching and research. In light of recent developments in the Great Lakes region - in particular peace processes in Uganda and Sudan, the Gacaca trials in Rwanda, and transitional arrangements in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi - addressing these issues takes on some urgency
More information http://www.refugeelawproject.org/resources/seminars/TJseminar.pdf