The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, and the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria jointly organized a symposium entitled: Accountability for conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence: Successes, Challenges, Narratives, and Omissions. The symposium took which took place at the University of Pretoria from 15–17 March 2017.

In recent years, conflict related sexual and gender based violence has garnered signigifiant attention in legal, media and policy circles.  The aim of the symposium was to facilitate dialogue among various stakeholders accountable for conflict related sexual and gender based violence, examine how this attention was manifesting in actual change, question in whose name the authors of legal and policy changes were speaking and what or who is being included or excluded from this conversation.

The symposium predominantly featured black academics, activists, survivors of GBV and legal practitioners to bring illustrate how conversations concerning GBV often happens without the presence of black women. This occurred to counteract the hegemonic white dominance in international justice spaces and to showcase the empirical, theoretical and practical contributions of black women to international justice.

To find the report on the symposium, please click on the link below: https://www.ijr.org.za/portfolio-items/accountability-for-conflict-related-sexual-and-gender-based-violence.