Perspectives from the Great Lakes region
Programme for African Leadership and Justice Africa public debate
Date: Thursday 8 May 2014
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Room 3.02, Clement House, LSE
Speakers: John Githongo, Dr Phil Clark, Dr Valerie Arnould
Chair: Professor Tim Allen
This event will explore recent gains and challenges and current trends in the area of justice in Africa. It will particularly draw attention to ongoing processes in transitional justice and to the involvement of the ICC in Africa, with a particular focus on Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Northern Uganda. Our panel of leading experts will first share their views on recent developments in their own areas of focus, then a wider debate and Q&A session with the audience will follow.
About the speakers
John Githongo is the CEO of Inuka, a non-governmental organisation involved in governance issues broadly defined, with an emphasis on working with and for ordinary Kenyans - youth in particular. John is also the Chairman of the Africa Institute for Governing with Integrity; Executive Vice Chair of the Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA); board member of the Africa Center for Open Governance (AFRICOG); and a Commissioner of the Independent Commission on Aid Impact (ICAI) of the British government. Previously, he served as Vice President of World Vision, Senior Associate Member, St Anthony's College Oxford; Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President in charge of Governance and Ethics of the Kenya Government; board member Transparency International, Berlin, CEO Transparency International Kenya and as a board member of the Kenya Human Rights Commission.
Dr Phil Clark is a Reader in Comparative and International Politics at SOAS, University of London. He was previously co-founder and convenor of Oxford Transitional Justice Research at the University of Oxford. He specialises in conflict and post-conflict issues in Africa, with a particular focus on peace, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation in the Great Lakes region. 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 politics of the International Criminal Court in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dr Valerie Arnould is a research fellow at the School of Law at the University of East London, where she currently works on a project investigating the impact of transitional justice on democracy. She was previously a visiting lecturer in human rights at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, a Research Fellow at the Egmont Institute in Brussels, and a Senior Africa Analyst at a London-based strategic intelligence company. Her research focuses on transitional justice and on conflict issues in the Great Lakes region. She is the author of 'The Politics of Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding. The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo' (forthcoming).
About the chair
Professor Tim Allen is head of the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and research director of the Justice and Security Research Programme. His work focuses on complex emergencies, forced migration, local conceptions of health and healing, development aid and the ethics of aid. He is the author of Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army (2006) and the editor, with Koen Vlassenroot, of The Lord’s Resistance Army: War, Peace and Reconciliation.
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