Beginning in 2009-2010, and for three consecutive years, the HUJ Minerva Center initiated, funded and supervised an annual workshop on the topic for a select group of HUJI students of law, international relations, conflict resolution and public policy and related fields. During the first 3 years the workshop focused on Rwanda and was taught by Adv. Sigal Horovitz. The course included an extraordinary 10-day educational visit to Rwanda and Arusha, that included meetings with ICTR and Rwandan Supreme Court judges, numerous Rwandan government officials (the Minister of Justice, Prosecutor General, and others), survivors' groups, international and local civil society organizations, ICTR prosecutors, defense attorneys and legal officers; site visits to the ICTR, genocide memorials, libraries, schools, a militia demobilization camp, a prisoner rehabilitation center; and joint public symposia with students of the National University of Rwanda.
In 2012 a new workshop was developed for the Transitional Justice Program by Dr. Ron Dudai, with particular emphasis on transitional justice and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland.
Ten top-notch students of diverse academic backgrounds are selected for the intensive semester-long workshop, which includes an 8-day study tour to Northern Ireland. The tour includes numerous meetings, workshops and site visits with politicians, civil society organizations, community leaders, ex-combatants and ex-prisoners from the Catholic and Protestant paramilitary groups, and tours and presentations by numerous engaged academics in the fields of law, criminology, education, sociology and anthropology.
Below are photos from the Transitional Justice
Northern Ireland
Rwanda and Arusha
HU graduate student Sana Knaneh speaking with former Hutu militia members at the national demobilization and reintegration camp in Rwanda, during the 2012 Minerva study tour.
At a gacaca trial in Rwanda for accused genocide perpetrators - during the Minerva Center's 2010 transitional justice workshop and study tour.
A school memorial site in Rwanda - photographed by an HU student during the Minerva Center's 2010 transitional justice workshop and study tour.
Memorial plaque listing the names of genocide victims interred in a mass grave (Kigali, 2011)
Adv. Sigal Horovitz, director of the Minerva Center's transitional justice workshops and study tours to Rwanda, during a class meeting with Rwanda's Prosecutor General 2011.
HU and Rwandan students at a young woman's training and empowerment program in Kigali, 2011
Prof. Sam Rugege, Chief Justice of the Rwandan Supreme Court, greeting Minerva Center transitional justice students in Kigali in 2011