Sri Lanka for time bound implementation of LLRC

By Jacob Dut Chol April 8, 2013 - This has been fierce debates in both pedagogy and policies echelons on the transition to Democracy. Many transitologies such as Guilerlimo O' Donnell, Philippe Schimitter, Dankwart Rustows and Carothers and ...

By Raisa Wickrematunge The Final LLRC Report handed over to President Mahinda Rajapaksa by Commission's Chairman Chitta Ranjan de Silva at the Temple Trees, in Colombo on November 20, 2011 It was 25 to 13 (with eight abstentions) at the UN ...

There are many definitions of how nations are built, but my favorite one defines the art of nation building as an enhancement of the art of family building; a family is hereby defined as an institution of people brought together by common ...

Participants at a Commonwealth roundtable on reconcilation from 1 to 3 May share their thoughts on garnering lasting peace after conflict Reconciliation is possible because it is possible in Rwanda Dr Jean Baptiste Habyalimana, Executive Secretary ...

Ms Arunmah Oteh is the Director-General of the Security and Exchange Commission of Nigeria (SEC). She is also the Chairperson of the African Middle East Regional Committee (AMERC) of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).

Following a destructive earthquake, even the ceremony of rescue is morally and politically ambiguous, as rescuers fight not against nature, but against the twisted ruins of their own design failures. -Gregory Clancey, 2006 When the earthquake struck ...

News & Media 14 May 2013 The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of Guatemala on how it implements the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, ...

If I was still in the classroom, I'd divert from the plans I'd etched out for this week and I'd teach a few lessons on justice -- what it means, how it's attained -- by examining something that happened in Guatemala at the end of last week.

Opinion: US war crimes exposed : by in Washington It is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture and that the nation's highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it. The kind of considered and detailed ...