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Kéba Mbaye Conference on African approaches to international law, with a focus on international human rights law
Contact Carole Viljoen : carole.viljoen@up.ac.za | Tel: +27 (0) 12 420 3810

2018 keba conference

Following on from a two-day Round Table on ‘African Approaches to International Law’, held at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, on 3 and 4 May 2017, a two-day Conference is scheduled for 5 and 6 December 2018, in Pretoria: the ‘Kéba Mbaye Conference on African approaches to international law, with a focus on international human rights law’.

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Aim of the Kéba M’baye Conference

The aim of this Conference is to continue a process of discussing “African approaches to international (human rights) law”, building on the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) approach, but rethinking and “vernacularising” it.

Questions to be addressed include:

  • What is unique about Africa’s approach to international law?
  • What would be the features of such an approach?
  • Potential contributors are invited to consider concrete examples or case studies that reflect issues related to African approaches to international law, through the lenses of state practice, academic writing, and teaching.

Contributors are invited to reflect specifically on international human rights law.

Other questions to be posed may include:

  • To what extent have “African approaches” to international law already emerged?
  • What are pertinent examples; and what are their features; and their contributions/ shortcomings?
  • What would be the constituent parts of “African approaches to international law”?
  • Is it possible or even desirable or talk of “African approaches to international law”?
  • Is TWAIL sufficient to describe what could be considered as African approaches to international law?

Contributors may also draw inspiration from the ‘Report of the Round Table’ and brief list of sources at the end of this document.

Papers are also encouraged on the history of international (human rights) law, focusing on Africa’s exclusions, biases and distortions in existing narratives and in the writing of history itself. The representation of “Africa” in the teaching sources and methodologies of international law could also be canvassed.

Location University of Pretoria

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