Ensuring Victims’ Owning the Transitional Justice Process in Sri Lanka:
The Transnational Law and Justice Network Faculty of Law, University of Windsor in collaboration with Home for Human Rights and The Social Architects is accepting applications to its 1st training program in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. The training program is open to civil society professionals and legal professionals working on issues related to dealing with the past, including (but not limited to) transitional justice, truth and reconciliation, historical dialogue, accountability, memory studies, oral history and sites of memory.
Participants will have the opportunity to engage in training, networking, and capacity building. The two-day program provides participants with the opportunity to hone practical and conceptual skills to develop an understanding of dealing with the past, and to foster mutually beneficial relationships with their peers to participate in the Transitional Justice Process in Sir Lanka. There are a total of 20 spaces available for this program.
The training program will be composed of seminars and workshops conducted by international experts, including members of Windsor University Faculty of Law and experts within Sri Lanka. Prospective seminar titles include:
• Conceptual framework of Transitional Justice (Theory and Substance)
• History of International Criminal Law & Contemporary International
Criminal Institutions
• Hybrid Courts
• Commissions of Inquiry
• Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
• Pardons, Amnesties and Apologies
Please send the application form to [email protected] and
[email protected] by July 31, 2016 with your CV attached.
Timeline:
Application deadline: July 31, 2016
Notification of acceptance: August 2, 2016
Program Date: Mid August
