Round table discussion on role of education in the processes of determining responsibility with a view to reconciliation
On Friday, 28th March 2014, a round table discussion Education for Reconciliation:theRole of Education in the Processes of Determining Responsibility and of Reconciliation, and the presentation of a collection of papers written by Regional Transitional Justice School students, took place in the Library of the Union University Law School in Belgrade. The round table, organized jointly by the Humanitarian Law Center, the Union University Law School and the Center for Advanced Legal Studies, was opened by Professor Zlatko Stefanović, Dean of the Union University Law School, and Marijana Toma, Coordinator of the Programme for Education at the Humanitarian Law Center. Participants included professors at the Union University Law School and Belgrade University, associates from various scientific institutes, alumni of the Regional Transitional Justice School, and Belgrade University and Union University students.
‘Education for Reconciliation’ is a film produced by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on the Regional School for Transitional Justice, organized in January 2013, for 25 participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Serbia by HLC, HLC Kosovo and Association Pravnik from B&H. Participants attended a ten-day intensive programme on judicially established facts and war crimes trials, truth commissions, reparations for victims of violence, institutional reforms, roles of media and archives in post-conflict societal reconstruction, and other strategies to achieve reconciliation after a violent conflict. Among the lecturers at the School are most prominent regional experts on transitional justice, culture of memory, rule of law in post-conflict societies, etc. Film ‘Education for Reconciliation’ follows several students of the School, their impressions on the content of the lectures and personal changes they had undergone while being exposed to topics of the School.