A TRC for - its role and expectations

Can reconciliation precede the quest for justice?
- The International Criminal Tribunal for the former ICTY/judicial reform, importance of independence of national judiciary
- Return of refugees and displaced persons as a judiciary process, not as a political instrument
- Retributive and restorative justice: only one element for reconciliation 

The role of education, media, local communities, civil society
- The crucial importance of education, common curriculum: is the education system contributing to or hampering the reconciliation process?
- The progressive reforms of media

The role of the international community as a complement in reconciliation processes. 

Prospects for a common narrative of the past - a common vision of the future?

Moderator: Ms Madeleine Rees, Head of the Office of the UNHCHR in Sarajevo

Invited speakers: Dr Jakob Finci, President of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Mr Srdjan Dizdarevic, President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Mr Branko Todorovic, Head of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights; Ms Memnuna Zvizdic, Women to Women, Sarajevo; Dubravka Kovasevic, Mr Christian Palme, journalist, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm; Professor Beverly Allen, Syracuse University, New York; Mr Payam Akhavan, PhD, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York