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Localising International Law: Examining the Public Outreach Strategies of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Workshop: Spaces of Transitional Justice: Law, States, Victims

25 and 26 March 2013, University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College

Organisers: Dr. Alex Jeffrey (asj38@cam.ac.uk) and Dr. Michaelina Jakala (Michaelina.jakala@ncl.ac.uk)

Workshop participants’ biographies are below.

Monday 25th March 2013
Room A1, Front Court, Emmanuel College

12.30 Registration and Lunch

13.30-14.45 Introduction to the workshop and project presentation
Dr. Alex Jeffrey, University of Cambridge
Dr. Michaelina Jakala, Newcastle University

15.00-15.15 Coffee break

15.15-17.30 Panel A: Institutional Design

Panelists:
Dr. Olga Martin-Ortega, University of Greenwich
Dr. Antje du Bois-Pedain, University of Cambridge
Dr. Rachel Kerr, Kings College London

18.30 Drinks Reception, Room 8, Emmanuel House

19.30 Dinner in Robert Gardner Room, Emmanuel College

Tuesday 26th March 2013
Room A1, Front Court, Emmanuel College

9-9.30 Coffee

9.30 – 11am Panel B: Victim Participation in Transition Justice

Panelists:

Dr. Jasmina Husanovic, University of Tuzla
Dr. Phil Clark, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Ms. Rudina Jasini, University of Oxford

11.00-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-13.00 Panel C: Materiality and Subjects

Panelists:

Dr. Sari Wastell, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Dr. Damir Arsenijevic, University of Tuzla
Dr. Michaelina Jakala, Newcastle University

13.00-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.00 Panel D: Historical and Political Contexts for Peace Building and Transitional Justice

Panelists:

Dr. Briony Jones, swisspeace

Mr. James Roslington, University of Cambridge
Ms. Eleanor Pritchard, University of Oxford

15.00-15.15 Closing Remarks

Workshop participants’ biographies

Dr. Damir Arsenijevic

Dr. Damir Arsenijevic is a lecturer at the University of Tuzla.

Dr. Phil Clark

Dr. Phil Clark is a lecturer in comparative and international politics at SOAS, University of London, and co-founder and former convenor of Oxford Transitional Justice Research, University of Oxford. He specialises in conflict issues in central Africa, particularly causes and responses to genocide and other mass crimes. His latest book is The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda: Justice without Lawyers (Cambridge University Press), and he is currently completing a book on the work of the International Criminal Court in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He holds a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Sara Clarke-Habibi

Sara Clarke-Habibi is a consultant and researcher in the areas of post-conflict peacebuilding and reconciliation. Sara was National Coordinator of the Education for Peace pilot programme in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina (2000-2002) which engaged 6000 children and youth and 400 teachers and staff in psychosocial healing, interethnic reconciliation, and participatory community rebuilding. Between (2002-2007) Sara worked with Bosnian educational authorities to achieve national policy integration of Education for Peace, and developed a series of curriculum manuals and trainings that have been used in several hundred BiH schools. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Cambridge as a Gates’ Cambridge Scholar. Her present research interests center on the role of education in social reconstruction in transitional societies emerging from violence.

Dr. Antje du Bois-Pedain

Dr. Antje du Bois-Pedain is a University Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, Deputy Director of the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge, and convenor of the Cambridge Transitional Justice Research Network (CTJRN). Her main research interests are in transitional justice, criminal law and legal theory. Her publications include Transitional Amnesty in South Africa (Cambridge University Press 2007, paperback edn. 2011) and Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (co-edited with François du Bois, Cambridge University Press 2008).

Dr. Jasmina Husanovic

Dr. Jasmina Husanovic is a lecturer at the University of Tuzla.

Dr. Michaelina Jakala

Dr Jakala received her PhD in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, UK in 2011. Her PhD research focused on the effects of post-conflict peacebuilding amongst women, more specifically survivors of wartime sexual violence, in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She also has experience working with victims’ associations in Sarajevo and co-founded the Wings of Hope BiH, Center for Women and Youth Development in 2009. She currently works with Dr. Alex Jeffrey as a Research Associate at The School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University on the ESRC funded Localising International Law: Examining the Outreach Strategies of the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina project.

Rudina Jasini

Rudina Jasini is reading for a DPhil in Law at Oxford University. Her doctoral research centres on the participation of victims of mass atrocities as partie civile in international criminal proceedings. She has recently completed a Visiting Researcher programme both at Harvard Law School and at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Rudina has taught tutorials in Public International Law and International Criminal Law at New College and Christ Church at Oxford University. Prior to coming to Oxford, she worked for the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague as a legal officer on the Defence Team in the case of Haradinaj et al. In March 2009, she worked pro bono with the legal team providing representation and assistance to victims of Khmer Rouge regime, in the prosecution of Kaing Geuk Eav (a/k/a Duch). Rudina holds an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Oxford (2009), an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University Law Center (2006) and a B.A. in Law from the University of Tirana (2001).”

Dr. Alex Jeffrey

Dr. Alex Jeffrey is a University Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. His research has focused on the governance of post-conflict environments, particularly the former Yugoslavia, and the role of nongovernmental organizations in fostering democracy. He has published in journals across geography, political science and development studies and has collaborated with Prof. Joe Painter on Political Geography: An Introduction to Space and Power (Sage, 2009) and with Prof. Anoop Nayak on Geographical Thought (Pearson, 2011). In October 2012 he published The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia in the RGS-IBG Book Series (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell).

Dr. Briony Jones

Dr. Briony Jones is currently the Research Fellow for the Dealing with the Past Programme at swisspeace, an independent research institute affiliated with the University of Basel. She is currently leading a Swiss National Science Foundation project on ‘Resistance to Transitional Justice? Alternative Visions of Peace and Justice’. In addition, she coordinates a project on the archives of truth commissions, and is a Co-Investigator with the University of Oxford for the ESRC funded project ‘Ways of Knowing after Atrocity: A Knowledge Exchange on Methods used to Formulate, Implement and Assess Transitional Justice Processes’. Her research interests include reconciliation, citizenship, the politics of transitional justice and qualitative research methods. She has field experience in Sri Lanka, Uganda and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Dr. Rachel Kerr

Dr. Rachel Kerr is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She holds a BA in International History and Politics from the University of Leeds and an MA and PhD in War Studies from King’s College London. She is co-convener of the War Crimes Research Group at King’s, and conducts research and teaching broadly in the area of international law and war, in particular war crimes and transitional justice. She is the author of The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: Law, Diplomacy and Politics (2004); Peace and Justice: Seeking Accountability After War (2007) and The Military on Trial: The British Army in Iraq (2008). Dr Kerr is currently a Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Eleanor Pritchard

Eleanor is finishing a DPhil in Socio-Legal Studies, in the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, at the University of Oxford; her thesis title is ‘Law and Albanian nation building’. She is the Student Chair of Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR).

James Roslington

James Roslington is completing a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge. He previously worked as a lawyer in an international law firm and as a legal translator for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. His research interests relate to the history, politics and society of North Africa.