The Essex Transitional Justice Network at the University of Essex, with the support of the Clemens Nathan Research Centre, is organising an international two-day conference on “The Law and Practice of Rehabilitation in Domestic Administrative Reparation Programmes”. It will take place at Firstsite (Colchester, UK) on 13 and 14 September 2012.

Rehabilitation as a form of reparation for gross violations of international human rights law and serious breaches of international humanitarian law generally receives sparse attention in the literature and in practice. This is despite the vital and immediate role it can play in a victim’s recovery. Drawing on the experience of a range of past and ongoing domestic administrative reparation programmes, the conference will explore the normative and legal role of rehabilitation as a form of reparation in times of transition. It will identify best practice on rehabilitation and engage with the challenges associated with crafting and implementing rehabilitation in states undergoing transitions. . It will also shed light on the international obligation of states to provide adequate and prompt rehabilitation to victims of such abuses by looking at state practice. The conference brings together a wide range of leading experts from around the world on the subject.

The conference is part of a research project on rehabilitation that will have as one of its main outcomes an edited collection of articles to be published in 2013.

Participation in the conference is free, but advance registration is required. If you would like to attend the conference, please complete the attached registration form and email it to tjn@essex.ac.uk