European Conference on African Studies

ECAS 2009
3^rd European Conference on African Studies

Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

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Panel 23: In Between War and Peace – Spaces of Transition in Africa (Anna-Maria Brandstetter / Susanne Buckley-Zistel)

Panel Organisers: Anna-Maria Brandstetter / Susanne Buckley-Zistel

The workshop aims to explore how divided societies are re-structured and con-figured in Spaces of Transition such as inter alia the South African, Sierra Leonian or Moroccan truth commissions, the Gacaca tribunals in Rwanda, the Healing of Memories in South Africa or Mato Oput in Northern Uganda.

Accepted Abstracts

Anita Schroven - Abstract

The window of opportunity to change gender relations:International interventions in post-war Sierra

Bert Ingelaere - Abstract

Life in Transition A Bottom-Up Perspective on the Experience of 'Political Transition' and the Expectation of Transitional Justice in Burundi

Obede Baloi - Abstract

'What is over is done with': local perceptions of violence, peace and reconciliation in post-war Mozambique

Susan Thomson - Abstract

'I don't know who saw what but I say that I saw nothing': Power, Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda