|
Institutional Reform Project |
PDF
|
| Print |
|
E-mail
|
It is quite clear that Zimbabweans are generally not satisfied with the political and socio-economic situation currently prevailing in the country, and that they have a desire to move to a new situation, which offers more positive opportunities to all. The process of moving from one position to another necessarily involves a transition. Transitional justice requires individuals who are equipped with capacity to administer justice in a transitional environment, be it through trials, truth commissions, reparations or reconstruction programmes, and lawyers will play a critical role in all these areas.
ZLHR is currently developing such a transitional justice project, and will devote time and resources towards capacity building of strategic members through working visits to countries that have gone through transition such as South Africa, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Yugoslavia, East Timor, Nigeria and Cambodia. After the working visits, the trainees will be used as resource persons to train ZLHR members and other strategic NGO members in transitional justice so that when transition takes place, there is internal capacity to handle and manage the process.
The objectives of the programme will be as follows:
- To create capacity among lawyers to handle and manage transitional justice in the event of change
- To learn the best practices from other countries that have gone through transititon after a period of conflict
- To prepare lawyers for the challenges ahead in transitional justice
|
OUR PROGRAMMES 
