Transitional Justice
This 1-month intensive course will cover fundamentals of transitional justice in the context of the Yazidi genocide. Learning modules will include fundamentals of international law, criminal accountability, reparations, truth telling process and institutional reforms applied to the Yazidi case. At the end of the course, students will be more familiar with the concept of transitional justice and become advocates of their community.
Application Deadline:
March 1st, 2022
Start Date:
March 10th, 2022
Educational Setting:
Face to Face at Sinjar Academy Center in Sinuni and Remotely
Objectives:
Learn fundamentals of transitional justice in the context of the Yazidi genocide.
Instructor(s):
Natia Navrouzov: Natia Navrouzov leads the legal advocacy efforts at Yazda. Natia is the organization’s first legal advocacy director, and she ensures that evidence is gathered in a survivor-centered way. Under Natia’s direction, survivors’ testimonies and crime sites have been documented for submission to to national and international justice mechanisms, including the International Criminal Court (ICC), and have led to the first genocide conviction of an ISIS member for crimes against Yazidi victims.
Content and Subject Matter:
This course is projected to be 1 month, 5 hours a week..
Module 1: Fundamentals of International Law (4 hours)
Module 2: Fundamentals of Transitional Justice (4 core elements: criminal accountability; reparation; truth telling; institutional reforms) (2 hours)
Module 3: Transitional justice in the context of Iraq and the Yazidi genocide (2 hours)
Module 4: Criminal accountability (documentation and prosecution of ISIS crimes in Iraq and globally) (4 hours)
Module 5: Reparation (link to Yazidi Survivors Law and other reparation schemes) (4 hours)
Module 6: Truth telling process (2 hours)
Module 7: Institutional reforms (2 hours)