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Law School Organizes an International Conference on Transitional Justice in the Context of Palestine
Hebron University Law School, through its legal clinics, organized an international conference on transitional justice in the context of Palestine on 18 November 2014 in collaboration with the University of Johannesburg and with the support of the United Nations Development Programme, “Strengthening the rule of law in the occupied Palestinian territory: justice and security for the Palestinian people.” The purpose of the conference was twofold: to test the possibility of applying transitional justice mechanisms within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, under occupation; and to explore the adoption of transitional justice to strengthen the internal Palestinian division and the efforts to sustain the reconciliation among Palestinian political parties in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The multidisciplinary conference incorporated 22 experts and officials from South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, United Nations, Palestinian from Israel, and from a number of Palestinian universities.
Topics discussed in the conference included an analogy between the apartheid system in South Africa and the apartheid policies of the Israeli occupation in the State of Palestine and how international law was used as a tool to both bring the apartheid regime down and to form the post-apartheid legal system based on truth and reconciliation commissions, prosecution, compensation, recognition, and amnesty. Other topics dealt with transitional justice and Palestinians in Israel; restitution in transitional justice in post-World War II; Guidance Note of the UN Secretary-General: Approach to Transitional Justice; critical views on the applicability of transitional justice within the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; land and housing rights and transitional justice; transitional justice as a mechanism for the internal Palestinian reconciliation; and forced displacement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
At the last session of the conference, four students from Hebron University Law School presented their findings based on research that they conducted after their study mission to South Africa in summer 2014. Their topics focused on children (Dianna Hashlamoun), refugee (Mazen Zaro), narratives (Hendam Rjoub), religion (Dua Jabari), and land (Anas Abusnieneh).
