International roundtable organized by Women in Black and Dah Theatar
Belgrade, July 9. 2009,(Center for theater investigations Dah Theatar, Marulićeva 8)
The transitional justice concept has emerged in the past few decades, and it is constantly being amended, reshaped and enriched with new contents and models, in accordance with the need to address the complex issues of the negative heritage of the past. In brief, transitional justice is a way in which an authoritarian/dictatorial/totalitarian/undemocratic society makes a transition into democratic order.
Transitional justice encompasses all forms of accountability: individual, collective, moral and political. All the models so far have been a combination of various processes of transitional justice as well as the creation of new aspects of accountability, because the models of transitional justice created so far do not provide answers to the complex issues of the past and are not sufficient for a break-away with a vicious past. Therefore, as there are no ready made models that could be transferred and applied, it is necessary to continually create new models of transitional justice. such is the Women in Black attempt of “gendering justice” , i.e. incorporating the gender dimension, namely, a feminist approach, in confronting the past and transitional justice.
Women in Black organize International roundtable u okviru aktivnosti Žena u crnom posvećenih obeležavanju 14 godišnjice genocida u Srebrenici.
Program:
9.30h – 10h: Introduction and presentation of participants – Staša Zajović i Dijana Milošević
10h – 10.30h: Institutional mechanism of Transitional Justice - experience of The Council for War Crimes (The Special Court) of Belgrade
Speaker:
- Mioljub Vitorović, viceprosecutor of The Council for War Crimes (The Special Court) of Belgrade
- Dragoljub Todorović, lower from Belgrade
- Vesna Rakić Vodinelić, Law Studies on the University Union dean
Moderator: Marijana Toma, Impunity Watch
10.30h – 11h: Break
11h – 13h: Does legal system satisfy/serve justice?
About rsponsability and initiatives of civil society to satisfy/serve justice
Participants
* Memnuna Nuna Zvizdić, coordinanator of NGO Žene ženama/Women to Women, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina
* Martin Alonso, dr philosophy, Santander, Spain
* Giannina Dal Bosco, Women in Black and Association of Peace, Verona, Italy
* Nora Ahmetaj, Prishtine, Kosovo
* Nataša Kandić, executive director of Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade
* Ljupka Kovačević, coordinator Center For Peace education Anima, Kotor, Montenegro
* Miloš Urošević, Women in Black, Belgrade
Moderator: Marijana Toma, Impunity Watch
13.15h – 14.15h: Art engaged in Confronting The Past/Transitional justice
– About the procese of creating theater performance 'Crossing The Line' based on the book 'Women's Side of War', published by Women in Black
Participants:
* Dijana Milošević, theater director
* Maja Mitić, actriss
* Sanja Krsmanović Tasić, actriss
* Ivana Milenović, actriss
Moderator: Boban Stojanović, Queeria centar
14.15h – 15.15h: Lunch
15.15h – 17.15h: Alternative Legal System – About Women's Courts
Participant:
* Corinne Kumar, International Coordinator of Courts of Women, El Taller International, Tunis and Asian Women's Human Rights Council, Balgalore, India
Moderator: Nuna Zvizdić
17.15h – 17.30h: Break
17.30h – 19.30h: Discussion about Feminist Approach – reflections and experience
Participants: activist of Women in Black Network Serbia and other participant of International roundtable
Coordinator: Staša Zajović, Women in Black
20.30h: Theater performance 'Crossing The Line' of Dah Theater
Contacts: Ljiljana Radovanović (Women in Black),2 623 225
Dah Theater: 2 441 680
Belgrade, June 22, 2009.
