Nuremberg International Registrars Workshop

kotarski Judicial Capacity Building

In April 2014, the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and the Wayamo Foundation hosted a meeting of international and national Registrars at the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, Germany.

The workshop included sessions on: 

  • The life of a Registrar – From Bureaucracy to Steering Through Politics
  • Lessons Learned from the Registry of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  • Outreach and Detention/Enforcement of Sentences
  • Supporting the Judiciary: Filing and Storing Records and Evidence; Archive Management; Courtroom Security, Services and Logistics
  • The Establishment Process and Current Challenges of the Ugandan International Crimes Division
  • Witness Participation at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon; Legal Workflow System/Electronic Court Management Tool
  • Kenya’s International Crimes Division and Lessons Learned from the International Level
  • Domestic and International Wildlife Crimes as Potential Crimes Falling Under the Jurisdiction of the International Crimes Division of the Kenyan High Court
  • Leadership Issues

 

Present at the workshop were:

  • Herman von Hebel, Registrar of the International Criminal Court
  • Bongani Majola, Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  • Kate Mackintosh, Deputy Registrar of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals and Deputy Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
  • Amelie Zinzius, Deputy Registrar, Special Tribunal for Lebanon
  • Justice James Ogoola, Chairperson of the Ugandan Judicial Service Commission
  • Alex Ajiji, former Registrar of the Ugandan International Crimes Division
  • Harriet Nalukwago Ssali, Deputy Registrar of the Ugandan International Crimes Division
  • Betty Kaari Murungi, Vice Chair of the Kenya Human Rights Commission
  • Elaine Bola-Clarkson, Registry member of the Residual Mechanism for the Special Court for Sierra Leone
  • Justice Stella Mutuku, High Court of Kenya
  • Winfrida Mokaya, Registrar, Judicial Service Commission, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Dr. Paula Kahumbu, Executive Director of Wildlife Direct, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Bettina Ambach, Director, Wayamo Foundation
  • Michaela Lissowsky, Director Founding Office International Nuremberg Principles Academy
  • Kris Kotarski, Wayamo Foundation

 

Photos by Kris Kotarski, Wayamo.