Call for Papers
Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice Processes in Africa: Assessing Impacts and Legacies
Location: University of Ghana, Accra
Date: August 26-27, 2019.
Abstract Deadline: March 30, 2019.
Contact Information: Adebisi Alade: aladea@mcmaster.ca
Subjects: African history/politics; truth commissions; transitional justice; conflict; peace-building; human rights.
The Confronting Atrocity Project Team announces a 2-day Round-table Summit that will bring together expert scholars, policy-makers, and civil society stakeholders to discuss and comparatively assess the work, outcomes and legacies of national truth commissions and transitional justice processes in Africa. Of the more than 50 national truth commissions that have been established globally in the past three decades, one-third have been established in Africa.
Despite their growing global popularity, some scholars consider the success of truth commissions to be limited to establishing factual truth about human rights abuses rather than explaining why they happened or preventing their re-occurrence. Proponents counter that if done well, truth commissions can bring justice and closure to victims and reconcile conflicted communities. Given the polarizing assessments of truth commissions, this Round-table Summit brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars, policy-makers and practitioners to reflect on the impact and legacies of truth commissions and transitional justice processes in Africa. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Baba Jallo, the Executive Director of the recently established Gambian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Although the Round-table is focused on Truth Commission processes, we welcome contributions on the broad theme of conflict transformation and transitional justice in Africa including:
- Theorizing truth commissions and transitional justice
- Conflict and post-conflict
- Truth Commissions and Democratic Transition
- Truth Commission Mandates and Politics
- Truth Commission Investigations and Public Hearings
- Truth Commissions Reporting, Recommendations and Implementation
- Outcomes and Legacies of Truth Commissions
Participants will be accommodated at the University of Ghana Guesthouse close to the conference venue in the University of Ghana campus. Participants must submit their full papers two weeks prior to the conference.
To apply to participate, please send an abstract (not more than 300 words) with a short list of thematic keywords and a short biography of the author(s) not more than 75 words by March 30, 2019 to confrontingatrocity@gmail.com or aladea@mcmaster.ca.
For questions, feel free to contact the Coordinators of the Confronting Atrocity Project: https://truthcommissions.humanities.mcmaster.ca/
Adebisi Alade: aladea@mcmaster.ca
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