Summer School Opportunity to build up your CV

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Summer School for Transitional Justice, Kopaonik,

11-18.7.2005 [deadline 30.5.]

Humanitarian Law Center (SCG), Research and Documentation Center (BiH) and

Documenta (Croatia) hereby invite university students and NGO activists

from Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, BiH and Croatia to apply to

THE SUMMER SCHOOL

FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND DEALING WITH THE PAST

July 11-18 2005

Kopaonik (SCG)

Who can apply?

- University students (age: 20-35) from Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia

and Herzegovina, and Croatia

- NGO activists (age: 20-35) from Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia and

Herzegovina, and Croatia

What is needed to apply?

- Curriculum Vitae (date and place of birth, education, work experience, contact information, etc.)

- Motivation Letter (please state: your reason for applying; your expectations of the school program; how your own knowledge will contribute to the school's discussions on dealing with the past; the extent to which a course on transitional justice is relevant to your academic/professional career; how knowledge gained in this school will aid your future career path, etc.)

Both documents must be written in English.

The deadline for applications is: May 30th 2005. The School's working

language is English. All applicants must demonstrate an excellent command of spoken and written English. Travel and accommodation expenses of all School participants will be covered by Humanitarian Law Center

Topics to be discussed at the School include (though are not limited to):

- Retributive and restorative justice

- Truth-telling mechanisms: commissions for truth and reconciliation

- Collective Memory

- Reparations

- Vetting and Lustration

- Reconciliation

- International tribunals for war crimes

- International Criminal Law and the ICTY

- Domestic War Crimes Trials

Applications should be sent by May 30th 2005 to:

summerschool@hlc.org.yu <mailto:summerschool@hlc.org.yu>

Or:

Fond za humanitarno pravo

(Letnja skola)

Makenzijeva 67 / II

11000 Beograd

Srbija i Crna Gora

Contact person: Vesna Bogojevic, Project Assistant, Humanitarian Law Center

More information about the school and recruitment strategy:

www.hlc.org.yu <http://www.hlc.org.yu>