On April 14th 2022, business magnate -Elon Musk- announced that he had offered to purchase Twitter for $43 billion (and later increased his offer to $44 billion). He already owns 9.1% percent of the company’s stock, becoming Twitter’s largest shareholder. AS is common knowledge, Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service on which users […]
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WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Prof Don John Omale, Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology, Federal University Wukari, Nigeria Moderator: Ehinon Perez E. Arikhan, Member, WATJCentre’s Africanist Scholars’ Forum Date: July 7, 2022 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 ) Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcuqsqTIoEtQgBsRMV-hMKXtfrKyuFGyY?fbclid=IwAR3R_n_89aG16xnhikSyNvi_b8cT5EuBemRShHi6JEXSL3uXSGxU5NWH7hQ Video Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcuqsqTIoEtQgBsRMV-hMKXtfrKyuFGyY
Restorative Justice: An Afrocentric Perspective Read More »
Don John O. Omale PhD is a UNODC Expert on Restorative Justice; a British Chevening Scholar of Criminology; and Professor of Criminology & Security Studies at the Federal University Wukari Taraba State, Nigeria. He holds BSc Psychology (University of Nigeria, Nsukka), MSc Criminology (University of Leicester, UK) and PhD Criminology with specialism in Restorative Justice
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Environmental Justice and the Aspiration for Sustainable Peace in The Middle East Read More »
Book: Thin Sympathy: A Strategy to Thicken Transitional Justice Author: Prof Joanna Quinn, Director and Graduate Chair, Centre for Transitional Justice and Post Conflict Reconstruction, Western University, Ontario, Canada Discussants: Dr Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Prof. Elisabeth King, Professor of International Education and Politics,
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WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Dr Rebecca Golden-Timsar, Learning and Development Coordinator, Speaking Out Case Studies, Medecins Sans Frontieres Moderator: Simone Rocha, Founder, Medecins Sans Frontieres Brazil Date: April 13, 2022 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 ) Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvdeGgrTkpHdRdiNWn5jDGe2bvoezHKMYX Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EaDcuxtDYI
Teaching Speaking Out in Humanitarian Contexts Read More »
Dr. Rebecca Golden Timsar is an advisory board member of the West African Transitional Justice Centre and the Learning and Development Coordinator of the Speaking Out Case Studies Project at Médecins sans Frontières (MSF). She obtained her PhD in anthropology from Tulane University. She was an Associate Director at the Global Energy, Development, and Sustainability
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Book: Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa Editors: Prof Egodi Uchendu, University of Nigeria, Nigeria; Ngozi Edeagu, University of Bayreuth, Germany Discussants: Prof Kehbuma Langmia, Howard University, USA Prof Gloria M T Emezue, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaJdTVf9slc
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Owo Mass Shootings and the Premium on A Nigerian Life On June 5, 2022 the Nigerian mediascape was redirected from the frenzy triggered by the prebendalist statement in respect of a self-acclaimed installation of the current administration by the national leader of the ruling party, with the sad news of a mass shooting incident by
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Preamble The declaration of a peacekeeping mission by the Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 22, to honour the agreement between his country and the secessionist regions in Eastern Ukraine – Donetsk and Luhansk, confirmed the earlier intelligence reports from the United States (US) and its Western Allies to the UN Security Council (UNSC) about
Rehumanising our Globe as a Sustainable Solution to the Russia-Ukraine Crisis Read More »
WATJCentre is focused on creating a foundational drive for the study of transitional justice in Africa by creating and updating a teaching curriculum for relevant institutions of learning…read more…
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