Symposium: Accountability After Mass Atrocity

The Center for Global Studies and the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, both at George Mason University, are organizing a symposium, "Accountability After Mass Atrocity: Latin American and African Examples in Comparative Perspective", on May 6 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Participants will explore differences in each context with respect to conceptualizing key actors, such as victims, perpetrators, impartial judges, witnesses, and others, and also core concepts, such as accountability, justice, sovereignty, healing, transnationalism, reparations, reconciliation, among others. Moreover, the conference is especially concerned to examine the role of regional and international courts in accountability efforts in each context, and particularly their effects on domestic initiatives, shedding light on several key issues from a comparative perspective. Please RSVP to Anne O'Dell at aodell@gmu.edu by May 4, 2009.