Following up on its successful event in Toronto in 2012 on “The Arab Spring and Human Rights,” we are gearing up to organize another event in the same locale. Preparations are now being made by Dr. Zahra Hend Shnayen, Director of Operations, in consultation with Barrister/Arbitrator William Horton (head of our Regional Liaison Center in Toronto) and Dr. El-Ayouty for that event in Toronto on May 22.
The topic is related to Arab Spring upheavals and their effects on national reconciliation. It is entitled “Transitional Justice,” and the event is open to the public free of charge.
Transitional Justice is a concept which arose from the fact that after every revolution or change of regime there are winners and losers. The losers are mostly good contributing citizens who find themselves shut out of their country’s new march toward democracy and development. In the Arab Spring revolutions, such exclusion deprives the country from integrating these talents within the new order.
Transitional Justice is basically the fashioning of legal, political and administrative environments where all national energies are utilized. Thus it could be regarded as the other side of the coin of national reconciliation intended to harness all talents.