The Calcutta Research Group is happy to invite you to the webinar “Afghanistan: Transition and Justice” on Monday, 8 November 2021 at 6.30 pm (IST) (1:00 pm London Time, 2.00 pm CET & 8.00 am Canada).

Concept Note

Afghanistan: Transition and Justice 

Decades of conflict and a constant state of transition in Afghanistan has meant that a long term plan for securing justice has always come second to securing peace. This disengagement between transitional justice and the political process and sensitivities around transitional justice among sections of the population, has impacted social reintegration and reconciliation. Lack of institutional reform and understanding of justice has meant that each stage of transition has been accompanied by violence and insecurity triggering, among others, the recent desperate need to escape from Taliban control. As the unending cycle of conflict and transition engulfs Afghanistan this webinar organized by the Calcutta Research Group focuses attention on the following themes (a) how a coherent strategy of reconstruction can only be based on creating conditions conducive to addressing the desire for justice among the people of Afghanistan (b) how the success of this process would ensure a lasting solution to the humanitarian crisis and the repeated waves of refugees who seek to leave the country with each stage of transition through an inclusive political process and (c) finally how the international community can support this process not only through programmes that support the process within Afghanistan but a recalibration of the understanding of Afghanistan as a Silk Road state.   

The speakers in the webinar will be:

Professor Paula Banerjee, Professor and Head of Department of South and South-East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta and Member of the Calcutta Research Group.

Professor Nergis Canefe, Associate Professor with the Department of Politics and Research Faculty with the Centre for Refugee Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

Professor Giorgia Dona, Professor of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Migration, Refugees & Belonging, University of East London, UK. 

The discussion will be moderated by Dr Anita Sengupta, Director of Asia in Global Affairs and Member of the Calcutta Research Group.

Please find the registration link for the webinar given here along with the poster and concept note.

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This webinar is a part of CRG's ongoing research & orientation programme in migration & forced migration studies, supported by RLS, IWM, Vienna, & several other universities & institutions in India.

Thanking you,

Sincerely,

Shatabdi Das, PhD

Researcher,

Calcutta Research Group