



The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
In Collaboration With
the Clinical Legal Education Center, The Faculty of Law, Fried-Gal Transitional Justice Program, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
International Webinar: Transitional Justice for Israel-Palestine in Comparative Perspective
Transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms have helped conflict and post-conflict societies to promote democracy, peace and reconciliation through reckoning with legacies of violence and human rights abuses. TJ mechanisms have been designed and implemented after the end of conflict or during ongoing conflict.
The webinar ‘s first panel will explore TJ experiences in diverse global contexts, highlighting lessons learned from other societies in comparative and socio-psychological perspective in order to understand some prerequisites, factually and institutionally, for successful TJ processes. The second panel will build on those and critically examine the possibilities and limitations of applying TJ approaches in Israel/Palestine. Between the two panels, a scholar and an artist will engage in a dialogue on TJ and Art. The webinar will be open to the public.
Program
@ 15:00 Israel Time, 14:00 CET, 08:00 EST
15:00 – 15:10 – Opening Remarks
Shiran Reichenberg, Executive Director, CLEC, Hebrew University
Remarks from the webinar organizers –
Sigall Horovitz, TJ Advisor, CLEC, Hebrew University
Anne van Aaken, Prof of Int’l Law, University of Hamburg (Humboldt Prof 2018-23); Minerva RLEC; Dist. Fellow, Hebrew University
15:10 – 16:00 – Panel I: Global TJ experiences
Pablo de Greiff, Senior Fellow, School of Law, NYU; former (and first) UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (2012-2018)
Ruti Teitel, Ernst C Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School
Leila Hilal, Human rights lawyer and TJ expert; former legal advisor to Palestinian negotiators on the right of return and reparations
Daniel Levy, President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP); former member of Israeli delegation to peace talks at Oslo and Taba
16:00 – 16:25 – Dialogue on Art and TJ
Shreya Shankar, PhD Cand. University of Hamburg, Law and Psychology
Maya Arad Yasur, Israeli dramaturge and playwright
16:30 – 17:20 – Panel II: TJ prospects in Israel/Palestine
Daniel Bar-Tal, Professor of Psychology (Emeritus), Tel-Aviv University
Ziad Abu Zayyad, Co-Editor of Palestine Israel Journal (www.pij.org), former PA Minister, Legislator, and negotiator
Shiri Krebs, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Law as Protection at Deakin University
Manal Totry-Jubran, Professor of Constitutional Law, Bar Ilan University
17:20 – 17:30 – Closing
Anne van Aaken, University of Hamburg & Minerva RLEC