{"id":251434,"date":"2013-03-21T11:24:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.npwj.org\/?p=251434"},"modified":"2023-11-11T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T10:33:44","slug":"libya-npwj-and-the-high-judicial-institute-organise-a-training-on-forensic-investigations-in-the-cases-of-political-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.npwj.org\/it\/comunicati-stampa\/libya-npwj-and-the-high-judicial-institute-organise-a-training-on-forensic-investigations-in-the-cases-of-political-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: NPWJ and the High Judicial Institute organise a training on \u201cForensic investigations in the cases of political violence\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tripoli, Libya, 17-21 March 2013<\/div>\n

In collaboration with the Libyan High Judicial Institute (HJI), No Peace Without Justice\u00a0organized a five-day training course on \u201cForensic investigations in the cases of political violence<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0with the participation of 65 investigators, prosecutors, and forensic professionals working on the front line of Libya\u2019s transitional justice efforts. Participants were selected from across Libya, with the aim of building capacity, knowledge, and experience within Libya\u2019s own judicial and investigative institutions. The training, which was organised in the framework of NPWJ program \u201cSupporting Libya\u2019s Democratic Transition through Justice and Accountability\u201d, was held from 17 until 21 March 2013 at the HJI in Tripoli.<\/p>\n

Libya\u2019s transitional justice process faces a number of challenges, both with respect to holding\u00a0perpetrators accountable and with respect to providing justice to victims through the on-going\u00a0search for missing persons. The methods and tools of forensic investigations have played a\u00a0central role in meeting these objectives in many transitional societies, and the Libyan Ministry of\u00a0Justice has expresses a clear desire to make full use of these techniques also in pursuit of its own
\ntransitional justice priorities.<\/p>\n

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Two leading experts in the field of forensic investigations provided the training with particular\u00a0expertise on the challenges of transitional and post-conflict societies: Luis Fondebrider and\u00a0Mercedes Salado Puerto, both from the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), who have extensive experience in the search for missing persons and support to the investigation and\u00a0prosecution of serious human rights abuses. The course focused on a range of forensic skills in criminal investigations, including techniques for surveying and excavating mass graves and recovering human remains, as well as analysing and identifying them. Specific attention was also dedicated to the role of relatives of the victims and civil society in the judicial process.<\/p>\n

NPWJ has been working on the Libyan transition since early 2011, in the framework of its\u00a0project to support Libya\u2019s democratic transition through justice and accountability<\/a>. As the country embarks on legislative reforms, the Libyan authorities can break with the legacy of impunity and abuses that typified Gaddafi\u2019s rule with a new respect for the rule of law and a commitment to restoring justice and dignity to victims. Doing so requires not only the investigation and prosecution of the crimes and violence perpetrated during the revolution, but also efforts to confront a history of oppression and human rights abuses that dates back decades under the rule of the former regime.<\/p>\n