Description:
Peace processes and post-conflict reconciliation are burgeoning intellectual interests that cut across several disciplines, including the social sciences, law, education, religious studies and the like.
Transitional justice is a catch-all phrase to summaries the range of intellectual concerns important to post-conflict societies, which includes topics like victim hood, memory, memorization and remembrance, war trials, amnesty, political and institutional reconstruction, human rights law, ethical and moral considerations around forgiveness, justice and healing, as well as cultural and symbolic change, gender empowerment in peace processes and the deconstruction of violent masculinities, the political underpinning of peace, the development of compromise after conflict, religious interventions in peace-building and reconciliation and so on.
Eligibility:
- This theme touches on questions of ethics, religion, law, human rights, politics and sociology and deals with some of the enduring legal,
ethical and socio-political issues affecting societies emerging from war and conflict.
- This scholarship for international students.
Deadline: 08 March 2013
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