Selected personalities representing various sectors of Bangsamoro society met in Cotabato City last June 6 to discuss the features of transitional justice.
An established practitioner in the field, Dr. Djordje Djordjevic of UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, served as resource person.
Transitional justice seeks individual accountability for human rights violations, stressed the New York-based Rule of Law, Justice and Security Advisor of the UNDP.
Djordjevic said that while there have emerged best practices in post-conflict countries, there is no “one-fits-all model” for transitional justice. In the fields of domestic prosecutions, truth and reconciliation commissions, reparation programmes, vetting, missing persons, forensics and documentation, memorialization, and informal/traditional justice, the experiences of countries vary.
Mohagher Iqbal, who chairs the MILF Peace Panel and the newly created Transition Commission, set the local context for transitional justice. He mentioned that the issue on transitional justice is contained in the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro where it is stated in the section on normalization, item number 12, that “The parties agree to work out a program for transitional justice to address the legitimate grievances of the Bangsamoro people, correct historical injustices, and address human rights violations.”
He contemplated program for transitional justice, Iqbal said, is “very much a work in progress …. is subsumed under the normalization process and would form part of the Annex on Normalization.”
Iqbal described transitional justice as “our overarching theme in our attempt to give justice to victims of human rights violations, to the rectification of massive land grabbing policies and practices, and the eventual vanishing of discrimination, to cite just some specific concerns.”
The three-hour round table discussion elicited numerous questions from participants which included MILF Peace Panel members Prof. Abhoud Syed Lingga and Datu Antonio Kinoc, NGO workers Ismael Maulana, Ershad Jalani Tawasil and Tahir Solaiman, and lawyers Johaira Wahab, Rasol Mitmug, Jr., Raissa Jajurie, Abdulrahman Kanacan, Naguib Sinarimbo, Laisa Alamia and Ishak Mastura. The International Monitoring Team was also represented by Deputy Head of Mission First Admiral Abdul Rahman bin Ayob, Amir Faisal Bin Ahmad and Juliana Nieto. Other invitees were Emma Leslie, Ayesha Abubakar, Drieza Lininding, Abdullah Cusain and Suharto Abas.
The event was organized by the Bangsamoro Study Group (BSG), a think-tank engaged in policy dialogue and advocacy.
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Transitional justice seeks individual accountability for human rights violations, stressed the New York-based Rule of Law, Justice and Security Advisor of the UNDP.
Djordjevic said that while there have emerged best practices in post-conflict countries, there is no “one-fits-all model” for transitional justice. In the fields of domestic prosecutions, truth and reconciliation commissions, reparation programmes, vetting, missing persons, forensics and documentation, memorialization, and informal/traditional justice, the experiences of countries vary.
Mohagher Iqbal, who chairs the MILF Peace Panel and the newly created Transition Commission, set the local context for transitional justice. He mentioned that the issue on transitional justice is contained in the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro where it is stated in the section on normalization, item number 12, that “The parties agree to work out a program for transitional justice to address the legitimate grievances of the Bangsamoro people, correct historical injustices, and address human rights violations.”
He contemplated program for transitional justice, Iqbal said, is “very much a work in progress …. is subsumed under the normalization process and would form part of the Annex on Normalization.”
Iqbal described transitional justice as “our overarching theme in our attempt to give justice to victims of human rights violations, to the rectification of massive land grabbing policies and practices, and the eventual vanishing of discrimination, to cite just some specific concerns.”
The three-hour round table discussion elicited numerous questions from participants which included MILF Peace Panel members Prof. Abhoud Syed Lingga and Datu Antonio Kinoc, NGO workers Ismael Maulana, Ershad Jalani Tawasil and Tahir Solaiman, and lawyers Johaira Wahab, Rasol Mitmug, Jr., Raissa Jajurie, Abdulrahman Kanacan, Naguib Sinarimbo, Laisa Alamia and Ishak Mastura. The International Monitoring Team was also represented by Deputy Head of Mission First Admiral Abdul Rahman bin Ayob, Amir Faisal Bin Ahmad and Juliana Nieto. Other invitees were Emma Leslie, Ayesha Abubakar, Drieza Lininding, Abdullah Cusain and Suharto Abas.
The event was organized by the Bangsamoro Study Group (BSG), a think-tank engaged in policy dialogue and advocacy.
http://www.luwaran.com/
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