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Advanced seminar
WiSe 23/24: Critical Approaches to Transitional Justice in the MENA Region
Günes Dasli
Comments
This seminar focuses on transitional justice (TJ) as a response to gross human rights violations in wars and conflicts with a specific focus on the MENA region. It aims to explain judicial and non-judicial mechanisms of transitional justice (TJ) and covers four main pillars: Prosecution, truth commissions, reparations and institutional reform.
Two guest lecturers will take part of the seminar in person. One is an activist academic from the Kurdish women’s Movement who will talk about her personal and academic experience on gender justice. The other guest is an expert on the Yezidis Genocide who will talk about her close work with the Yezidis survivors in Iraq.
After introduction to transitional justice, seminar provides the up-to-date debates in relatively young field. It engages with the grassroots activism and discusses bottom-up and alternative truth-seeking initiatives led by civil society actors. Finally, the seminar covers the new concept of transformative justice.
Main topics:
Overview of pillars of Transitional Justice
Recent developments in TJ
Restorative Justice and Reparation
Civil Society’s Role in TJ
Grassroots activism and Resistance in TJ
Transformative Justice as a new concept/framework
Case Studies: Kurdish conflict, South Africa, Tunisia, Yezidis Genocide in Iraq close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Fri, 2023-10-20 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-10-27 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-11-03 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-11-10 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-11-17 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-11-24 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-12-01 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-12-08 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-12-15 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2023-12-22 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2024-01-12 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2024-01-19 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2024-01-26 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2024-02-02 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2024-02-09 14:00 - 16:00
Fri, 2024-02-16 14:00 - 16:00