RSSNews from our Partners – Online Debate Complementing Dialogue Issue 9 on Human Rights and Conflict Transformation
Recently, PRIO’s Peaceethics Forum has hosted a discussion which resonates strongly with our latest Dialogue issue on Human Rights and Conflict Transformation: The Challenges of Just Peace. The debate centres on “Peace vs. Justice? The Dilemma of Peace and Justice in Post-conflict Societies in Africa: Lessons from Sudan and Kenya”, with a lead contribution by Kwesi Aning and Ernest Ansah Lartey, and comments by Chandra Sriram Lekha, Abdelbagi Jibril and the Berghof Handbook editor Beatrix Austin. Issues covered are how to properly include justice demands in peace agreements, what the role of political elites is in shaping decisions on justice and peacebuilding and how retributive and restorative justice can become complementary approaches – among many others.
We find: for those interested in continuing the discussion and learning more about concrete ways of addressing the delicate balance of peace and justice in different regions, the Peaceethics Discussion Forum is well worth visiting.