Summer School on Transitional Justice: Dealing with the Past

The inaugural Summer School on Transitional Justice will take place from 9^th-13^th June 2008 at the University of Ulster’s Magee Campus. The Summer School is a weeklong residential course, consisting of a series of lectures, workshops and roundtable discussions on various transitional justice themes. The focus of this year’s School is on ‘dealing with the past’, and over the five days participants will look at the mechanisms that have been employed globally to this end by societies in transition.  These include truth and reconciliation commissions, international criminal tribunals, inquiries and community-based approaches. The Summer School will also explore the challenges and dilemmas around issues such as amnesties, gender in transition, restorative justice, the role of victims and reparations.

Summer School Faculty   Professor Christine Bell (Transitional Justice Institute); Professor William A. Schabas (Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights and Member of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission); Professor Colm Campbell (Transitional Justice Institute); Dr. Phil Clark (Oxford University); Professor Fionnuala Ni Aoláin (Transitional Justice Institute), Dr. Brandon Hamber (INCORE) Professor Oren Gross (Minnesota Center for Legal Studies) Mark Freeman (International Centre for Transitional Justice)   Programme Outline     Day 1: Introduction to the Origins, Theories and Debates on Transitional Justice  Day 2: International Criminal Justice  Day 3: Truth and Reconciliations Commissions  Day 4: Restorative Justice & Community-Based Approaches to Justice & Reconciliation  Day 5: Reparations in Post-Conflict Societies     The fee for the course is £450, which includes materials for the course, accommodation, breakfast and lunch, half-day tour and Summer School dinner.   Registration Details and Forms available here

For further information contact:

tjsummerschool@ulster.ac.uk

Transitional Justice Institute,

Magee Campus,

University of Ulster,

Northland Road,

Derry/Londonderry

BT487JL

Tel.: +44 (0) 2871 375146
Fax: +44 (0) 2871 375184

Participants in the Summer School on Transitional Justice may also be keen to participate in INCORE's International Summer School, which runs on the Magee campus from June 16th-20th 2008. A preferential fee will apply for participants who wish to take part in both Summer Schools. Further information on the INCORE Summer School is available at: http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/courses/ss/ss.html