Expert Talk: Transitional Justice CC-BY-NC Transitional Justice - Strategies for conflict management and reconciliation In recent years, concepts of Transitional Justice have been becoming increasingly important in the context of coming to terms with societies’ past conflicts. The aim is to achieve reconciliation or at least an improvement in relations between the parties that were involved in the conflict, and to find a way for an often divided society to find peaceful forms of coexistence and thus prevent future conflicts. By Gitti Hentschel South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Gender Justice The system of racial domination known as ‘apartheid’ had engendered a guerilla war since the 1960s and the country had become a militarised fortress . Overcoming experiences of violence - Truth and reconciliation commissions and criminal tribunals Apart from speakers from South Africa and discussion participants from Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, representatives of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a number of German non-governmental organisations, particularly from the field of peace and conflict studies, also took part. By Dr. Rita Schäfer Pictures of the Expert Talk
Transitional Justice - Strategies for conflict management and reconciliation In recent years, concepts of Transitional Justice have been becoming increasingly important in the context of coming to terms with societies’ past conflicts. The aim is to achieve reconciliation or at least an improvement in relations between the parties that were involved in the conflict, and to find a way for an often divided society to find peaceful forms of coexistence and thus prevent future conflicts. By Gitti Hentschel
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Gender Justice The system of racial domination known as ‘apartheid’ had engendered a guerilla war since the 1960s and the country had become a militarised fortress .
Overcoming experiences of violence - Truth and reconciliation commissions and criminal tribunals Apart from speakers from South Africa and discussion participants from Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, representatives of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a number of German non-governmental organisations, particularly from the field of peace and conflict studies, also took part. By Dr. Rita Schäfer