The interactive debate provides a range of international perspectives on issues surrounding the elections in Kenya: generalized and persistent impunity; international and local mechanisms for dealing with such impunity and the phenomenon of hate or dangerous speech.
Welcoming by Dr Luis Franceschi, Dean of Strathmore Law School
Opening remarks by:
- Samuel Kobia, Commissioner, Judicial Service Commission, Kenya
- Hon. Justice Mohamed Warsame, Judge of the Court of Appeal
- Her Excellency the German Ambassador Margit Hellwig-Bötte
Debate
- Akbar Khan, former Director, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat and Member of the World Economic Forum Global Council on the Rule of Law: “Promoting the rule of law: Role of international criminal justice and national legal systems in the fight against impunity”
- Justice Warsame, Judge of the Court of Appeals: “The Role of the Judiciary in in the Process of Free and Fair Elections.”
- Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague: “International Criminal Tribunals and their contribution to national efforts to bring perpetrators of atrocity crimes to justice”
- Martin Ngoga, Prosecutor General of Rwanda: “Rwanda´s approach to fight impunity. How to deal with Hate speech crimes.”
