Truth, Justice and National Reconciliation: The Moroccan Experience in Comparative Perspective

Friday 9 June 2006
The Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College

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Provisional Programme

10.00 Coffee
10.30 Welcome: Michael Willis (St Antony's College, Oxford)

10.45 Session 1: Morocco

Chair: Michael Willis

Driss El Yazami (Member of l'Instance Equit� et Reconciliation- IER)

Abdelhay Moudden (Rabat University, Member of l'Instance Equit� et Reconciliation- IER)
Political Reconciliation: The Moroccan ERC (Equity and Reconciliation Commission) Model

Ahmed Herezni (l'Institut national de la recherche agronomique, President of Appel Citoyen)

12.30 Lunch

2.00 Session 2: Algeria

Chair: Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)

George Joff� (Cambridge University)
"National reconciliation and peace in Algeria"

Rasmus Boserup (Copenhagen University)
"Violence, Victims and Imaginaries of State Power in Algeria"

Leila Nadir-Jones (St Antony's College, Oxford)
"Views from the Algerian street: forgiving but not forgetting"

3.30 - Coffee/Tea

4.00 - Session 3: International Experiences

Chair: Ahmed Al-Shahi (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Alan Angell (St Antony's College, Oxford)
"Reconciliation or Justice? The Latin American Experience"

William Beinart (St Antony's College, Oxford)
"Reconciliation, Africanism and Political Process in South Africa

Sune Haugbolle (St Antony's College, Oxford)
"Memory, truth and justice in Lebanon"

5.30 - Concluding remarks and close.

Open to all. No registration fee.

For further details please contact:
Convenor: Dr Michael Willis, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Email: michael.willis@sant.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 284753