Podcast and Interviews

In the framework of the international conference "New Horizons - Linking Development Cooperation and Transitional Justice for Sustainable Peace" we have produced a Podcast with Statements and Interviews of the participants. This Podcast gives an insight into the conference topic and contains the assessments, observations and rich experiences of some of the conference participants.

Download and Play the Podcast "New Horizons" (12:06 Min; 11,3 MB)

Additional Interviews are available in full length:

George Wachira is former Executive Director (1996-2006) of the Nairobi Peace Initiative and has spent the last two years researching the role of truth and reconciliation commissions in Africa, focusing on Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone and South Africa. At the onset of the 2008 crisis in Kenya he co-founded Concerned Citizens for Peace (CCP). In the Interview George talks about CCP and deals with the limitations of a legal approach to justice in post-conflict societies.

Download and Play the Interview with George Wachira (07:37 Min; 7,2 MB)

Ruben Carranza is Acting Director, Reparations Program of the International Centre for Transitional Justice. He was a Commissioner in the Philippine commission that successfully recovered a significant part of Marcos assets hidden in European and other foreign banks. He worked extensively with civil society on a proposed reparations program for victims of the Marcos dictatorship. He concurrently served in the UN Ad Hoc Committee that drafted the 2003 UN Convention Against Corruption. We have asked Ruben about the relationship among transitional justice, corruption and economic crimes. He also explains how the recovery of stolen assets can be used for development and sustainable peace.

Download and Play the Interview with Ruben Carranza (03:08; 5,2 MB)

Dr. Rama Mani is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies of the University of Oxford. Rama has worked for a number of recognised institutions and organisations including the United Nations and Oxfam. In her book "Beyond Retribution: seeking justice in the shadow of war" Rama developed three dimensions of justice in post-conflict societies and explains these three dimensions in the interview. She also refers to the connection to economic, social and cultural rights and explains, what the different dimensions of justice mean for development, human rights and transitional justice programmes by state and non state actors.

Download and Play the Interview with Dr. Rama Mani (05:32; 5,2 MB)

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