Organised by the African Human Security Initiative Secretariat at the Institute for Security Studies and WANEP- Nigeria

Closed Event - by invitation only

The African Human Security Initiative (AHSI), a network and partnership of several African organizations working on peace and conflict, has been using the opportunity created by the peer review concept to complement the formal NEPAD – Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) process. This was done through reviewing the criminal justice system in five countries identified for peer reviews [Zambia, Tanzania, Benin, Mali and Sierra Leone]. AHSI aims to influence reforms in the criminal justice systems on the continent and this seminar will serve as a dialogue forum for drawing attention to the effects of crime and defective criminal justice systems on the democratisation and development processes on the content.

08:30-09:00              Registration

Chair: Chukwuemeka Eze-WANEP/AHSI Partner

09:00-09.15  Welcoming Remarks and Brief background on
AHSI- Ambassador Ochieng Adala-  APFO/AHSI partner

09:15-10:45 The Challenges of studying crime and criminal justice systems in Africa 
Prof Etannibi Alemika –Univ of Jos

Crime survey findings in 3 western African countries
Dr. Annie Barbara Chikwanha- AHSI/ISS Addis Ababa

Mapping Crime in West Africa and its impact on democratisation and development
Innocent Chukwuma-Kleen Foundation, Lagos
                 
Discussion

10:45-11:00 Tea break

10:45-13:00 Criminal justice systems in Francophone African countries
Prof Christophe Kougniazonde- Alouine Blondin Beye Academie, Benin
  
Criminal justice systems in Anglophone African countries
Prof. Ameze D. Guobadia, Lagos

13:00-14:00 Lunch
                       
14:00-16:30  The Challenges of Harmonising Africa’s criminal justice systems in West Africa [Francophone and Anglophone traditions]
Dr. David Zounmenou ASAP/ISS Pretoria

The Role of the RECs in reforming Criminal Justice Systems
Dr.Tony Karbo UPEACE/AHSI Partner

16:30-16:45  Closing Remarks: Murtal Touray WANEP/AHSI partner

RSVP:

Ifeanyi Okechukwu
Program Manager, Conflict Prevention
West Africa Network for Peacebuilding(WANEP)Nigeria
3 Soji Adepegba Close, Off Allen Avenue, Ikeja
Lagos
Tel: +234-1-8198282, mobile: +234-803 830 6615
Alternate e.mail: [email protected]   "`Ifeanyi Okechukwu`" <[email protected]>

Or

Dr Annie Barbara Chikwanha
Senior Research Fellow/Chercheuse Associe`Principale
African Human Security Initiative/Initiative pour la Se`curite Humaine en Afrique,
Ki-ab building, Alexander Pushkin Square,P.O.Box 2329,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel: +251 113 72154/5/6
Email: [email protected]

Pease Note: Attendance of this event is free (limited seating), but travel and accommodation costs are for your own account

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