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July 2004 Cape Town FellowsAlipio BaltazarTimor-Leste
Adolf Awuku BekoeGhana
Foday Alimamy JallohSierra Leone
Olivier Kambala wa KambalaDemocratic Republic of the Congo
Bunthea KeoCambodia
Heng KongCambodia
Olive MujawingomaRwanda
Leon Bulelwa MukengeDemocratic Republic of the Congo
Tushari Dilukshi SamarwickramaSri Lanka
Khin Maung ShweBurma
Josephine Thompson-ShawSierra Leone
Godfrey Ndung'u WainainaKenya
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Cape Town, July 2004 July 2004 Cape Town Fellows explore the town of Guguletu, where they meet with civil society representatives to discuss reconciliation and justice in the context of enduring inequality. |
Alipio Baltazar (Timor-Leste) graduated with a degree in education from the University of East Timor. Between 1999 and 2001 he worked on political affairs for the United Nations’ Civic Education Unit. In 2001 he worked intensively monitoring the Constituent Assembly. Between May and December 2002 he functioned as a consultant to the Asia Foundation on their Civic Education Program Campaign, which was designed to support the new Timorese Constitution. In 2003 Mr. Baltazar was a consultant for the parliament of Timor-Leste, both to coordinate assistance for the parliament and civil society organizations.
Adolf Awuku Bekoe (Ghana) is a Clinical Psychologist with an MPhil degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Ghana. He is currently working with the Ark Foundation, Ghana, in the field of domestic violence. Prior to that, Mr. Bekoe worked with the National Reconciliation Commission of Ghana (NRC) as a counselor and with the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) as a victim support volunteer, providing extended psychological support to witnesses appearing before the NRC. Mr. Bekoe has special skills in training, counseling, community mobilization and doing advocacy using radio. He is also an active member of the National Coalition on Domestic Violence Legislation in Ghana. His special interest in the field of transitional justice is to see how gender plays out in transition.
Foday Alimamy Jalloh (Sierra Leone) graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. Since his graduation in 2001, he has worked with human rights groups in Sierra Leone. He worked as a coordinator with the Koinadugu District team for the University Research and Development Services Bureau/Ford Foundation (New York), which investigated the antecedents of the rebel war in Sierra Leone. He also worked with the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission both as a statement taker and national investigator. Mr. Jalloh has also worked with the American Bar Association in the Sierra Leone War Crimes Documentation Project.
Olivier Kambala wa Kambala (Democratic Republic of the Congo) obtained a law degree from the University of Kinshasa, specializing in international criminal law. He has been working as a consultant in this area for several years and has been active in Congolese civil society, organizing and facilitating workshops and conferences. Since 2002, he has worked as a consultant with RCN-Justice et Democratie on rebuilding legal infrastructure and promoting the rule of law in the DRC. As the director of the International Centre for Peace in Central Africa, he acquired management and administration skills as well as experience in post-conflict peacebuilding. He is particularly interested in issues pertaining to the International Criminal Court in the DRC.
Bunthea Keo (Cambodia) joined LICADHO (Cambodia League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights) as a human rights monitor in 1998, after completing his law degree at the Faculty of Law, Science and Economics. With 12 provincial offices and headquarters in Phnom Penh, LICADHO is the largest local human rights NGO in Cambodia. His responsibilities include investigating, intervening and documenting cases of human rights abuse at the district, communal and village level, as well as cooperating with representatives from government agencies, UN agencies, and other human rights organizations.
Heng Kong (Cambodia), upon completion of legal studies in June 1995, started working for the Cambodian Defenders Project (CDP) – an NGO providing legal aid to the poor and vulnerable, promoting legal awareness and developing the legal system in Cambodia. Committed to providing legal services to the poor, he strives to ensure adherence to the law and principles of human rights that Cambodia has promised in its Constitution to respect and obey, and to end blatant abuse of human rights, including forced confessions, police torture and illegal confinement and detention.
Olive Mujawingoma (Rwanda) graduated from the National University of Rwanda Faculty of Law. She has worked for the UNHCR and EU/UNHRFOR (European Union/United Nations Human Rights Field Office in Rwanda) as attache a la protection and interpreter / translator respectively. Since then, Ms. Mujawingoma has been working for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, first as interpreter/translator and later as a witness support assistant. From 1998 to 1999, while working for the ICTR, Ms Mujawingoma pursued her studies at the University of Southern Colorado in the field of Victim Advocacy.
Leon Bulelwa Mukenge (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is a graduate in conflict management studies at the Centre Universitaire de Paix de Bukavu and from the Africa Refugee Foundation in Nigeria. A social activist, he was forced to flee when war broke out in the eastern DRC in 1998, eventually making his way to South Africa. He has served as executive director of the Congolese Organization for Peace and Reconciliation, an organization committed to drawing the Congolese refugee community in South Africa into the DRC’s transitional processes and building their capacity.
Tushari Dilukshi Samarwickrama (Sri Lanka) has many years of experience in the fields of humanitarian assistance, journalism and peace research, having worked both in Sri Lanka and abroad. She functioned as the media/reporting officer of the Red Cross in Sri Lanka for over three years. Prior to this she has worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka. She has a Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies from the European University for Peace Studies in Stadtschlaining, Austria. She wishes to work towards establishing a truth seeking body for Sri Lanka in future.
Khin Maung Shwe (Burma) was a senior high school student during the 1988 uprising, during which he became an active member in his hometown. He participated in a series of anti-regime protests until the military violently seized power on September 18, 1988. After the suppression of pro-democracy activists, he left Burma and joined the All Burma Students' Democratic Front to continue his political activities. He is also the member of the Network for Democracy and Development and graduated with a General Education Development Certificate from the American Council on Education. He is currently organizing, facilitating and assisting in the transitional justice awareness training and human rights database project at the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB). Mr. Shwe has studied and facilitated human rights, women's rights, media and transitional justice training for grassroots workers, youth, women and ethnic nationalities of Burma. His research has focused on transitional justice issues pertaining to victim/perpetrator mediation. Through his work he wishes to contribute to peace, national reconciliation, development and stability in Burma.
Josephine Thompson-Shaw (Sierra Leone) is a graduate from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. After graduating she worked with children for several years and later became a gender and children's desk officer at the Campaign Against Violent Events (CAVE). She worked at the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a statement taker, investigator, researcher and a consultant transcriber. Her research focuses on the links between transitional justice and development.
Godfrey Ndung'u Wainaina (Kenya). Mr. Wainaina holds a Bachelor of Science degree form Egerton University, Kenya. He taught briefly in high schools but left to concentrate on human rights and civic activism. He has served as programme officer for communication, outreach and networking as well as fundraising and programmes development with the National Convention Executive Council (NCEC). He has undertaken training on leadership development through Youth Agenda and has served on the NCEC Management Board. Mr. Wainaina has worked as a civic education facilitator with Citizens Coalition for Constitutional Change (4Cs); research assistant with the Corruption Project at the Center for Law and Research International (CLARION); and with the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) Research and Advocacy Departments. As a trained researcher and monitor with KHRC and Mazingira Institute, Mr. Wainaina has helped conceptualize a transitional justice project: Campaign Against Impunity. He has wide experience in constitutional, governance and human rights issues. He has keen research interest in the fields of human rights and transitional justice.
