Governance

In an article written in the Guardian in April 2014, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair called Rwanda ‘ A beacon of hope ”.

THE SITE
We came, marched to remember the vanquished, our mortal enemy the date was six.

We also came, to retrieve from the wagons our sons to bury the date was the nineteenth.

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

The notion and practice of Transitional Justice is an undertaking at some sort of boundary, a borderline of some sort between ‘here’ and ‘there’.

The present collection on transitional justice represents an important corrective to the dominant trend within the field. In this collection, questions of natural resources, gender, international relations and structural violence are included as part of the discussion of transitional justice.

INTRODUCTION

Whether or not the Southern African state of Zimbabwe can be said to be in a process of ‘transition’ is debatable.

It is not unusual to hear many activists, communities and the public in general asking, what is this Transitional Justice? Where are we transitioning from and to where?

I recently attended a conference where I had the chance to hear the speech of one Somali diplomat, whose identity or post is not what is important here. What he said, however, matters much more as he has indeed brought on the table many issues concerning the Federal Republic of Somalia’s future.