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• 06 jui 2012

  Lisbon

  Study days - Africa

  Pluralismo jurídico: um debate a partir da Guiné-Bissau

  Garantir o acesso à justiça e ao direito, em qualquer sociedade, significa que os seus membros conhecem os seus direitos, e que não se conformam quando se sentem lesados; significa igualmente que desfrutam dos requisitos para vencer os custos e as múltiplas barreiras para aceder ao direito e aos meios mais adequados e legitimados. Os debates em torno das possibilidades e dos processos de acesso ao direito e à justiça tem vindo a revelar a pluralidade de instâncias presentes, consideradas socialmente legítimas para a resolução dos seus litígios.Este seminário procura alargar o debate em torno do acesso ao direito e à justiça no contexto da Guiné-Bissau.

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• 30 jui 2012

  Bangui

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Justice, witchcraft and violence

  Colloque portant la justice de sorcellerie en Afrique contemporaine du point de vue des sciences sociales, particulièrement de l'anthropologie, et des droits de l'homme. Les croyances à la sorcellerie s'expriment par des accusations et des stigmatisations touchant diverses catégories : femmes, enfants sorciers, vieillards etc., donnant lieu à des aces de violence. Elles entrainent l'encombrement des tribunaux qui condamnent à de lourdes peines.

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• 29 jui 2012

  Kigali

  Call for papers - Education

  Rwanda: Genocide and Reconstruction

  A journey through the Genocide of Tutsi

  Organized in Rwanda by the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center. The Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center based in Kigali, Rwanda continues their two/three-week US/Rwanda exchange program in order to deepen students’, researchers’, and artists’ knowledge of the Rwandan genocide. In the last years, the program started in 2004 has enabled teachers and students from Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Afghanistan, Singapore, Mexico, UK, France, Belgium, Spain, and the USA to develop narratives that engage questions of social justice, conflict resolution, and peace building. The program has involved theater artists, filmmakers, academicians, researches, and students from various disciplines and countries, whose practice engages questions of peace building.

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