Youth and Transitional Justice – the strategic importance of youth participation in peace processes

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The John and Pat Hume Foundation and TJI/INCORE hosted a Seminar with Anjli Parrin: Youth and Transitional Justice – the strategic importance of youth participation in peace processes (part of the NI Human Rights Festival). Anjli Parrin is a human rights advocate from Kenya. She directs the Global Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago, and associate director of the Project on War Crimes and Mass Graves at the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute and Clinic. The project seeks to advance justice in the Central African Republic.

Together with Graeme Simpson from Interpeace she is coediting a special issue of the International Journal on transitional justice, on the topic of youth and Transitional Justice and discusses the strategic importance of youth participation in peace processes and transgenerational issues. Tim Attwood introduced the speaker and Prof Rory O'Connell chaired the event.
Period12 Dec 2012
Event typeSeminar
LocationBelfastShow on map