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Annual Report 2001

Strategic Priorities 2002:
Justice and Reconciliation

In the words of Botman and Petersen, as a region “ . . .we are confronting the demons of our past, to exorcise them so that we may build the kind of communities reconciled to face the future.” The greatest challenge in this process is how to hold together truth, justice and reconciliation so that they give birth to a new dispensation where justpeace would prevail. In Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana processes for addressing the past and healing divided memories are being debated. Also, these societies are wrestling with the challenges of instituting judicial reforms and understanding new conventions for human and people’s rights. Through this one-year study process, WANEP and its partners will conduct a survey of legal institutions in West Africa, the justice and peace commissions of the Catholic Church in West Africa as well as human rights institutions in the region. The goal is to assess their capacities and to design framework for regional cooperation to promote judicial reform and strengthen civil society and church based human rights organizations.

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