Sri Lanka: Transitional Justice Workshops and Trainings

During this time, ICSC has prioritized the preservation and dissemination of women’s narratives during the war, and has hosted several workshops in each region of the country that bring women together across religious and ethnic divides to discuss their experiences and transitional needs. In the summer of 2018 alone, ICSC hosted 50 transitional justice initiatives focused on young people and women, which were attended by 970 people and focused on transitional justice concepts and their importance in bringing about reconciliation in Sri Lanka.  A series of October 2018 workshops showed women who were engaged in local politics how they could raise their voices in support of initiating reconciliation processes in their communities and taught youth how their engagement could help sustain the implementation process of transitional justice in Sri Lanka by going beyond a “them and us” mindset and traditional identity group divisions. Further, on February 25, 2019 women leaders from the Monaragala District held a workshop and discussion to raise awareness about transitional justice. In this workshop, women participants learned about the various strategies other countries have taken in their quest for transitional justice.