From Colombia to the Democratic Republic of Congo: exploring the untapped potential of restorative justice. A response to Annette Pearson

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Notes

1 Sanction Committee 1533 report 28 December 2016. UN security Council Doc. S/2016/1102 available on Group of expert report http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2016/1102.

2 République Démocratique du Congo: Loi No. 05/023 du 2005 portant amnistie pour faits de guerre, infractions politiques et d’opinion available at Refworld at http://www.refworld.org/docid/47305d032.html.

3 Declaration of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the end of the Kampala Talks Articles 1(1) and 8(4).

4 Article 215 of the DRC 2005 Constitution provides ‘Lawfully concluded treaties and agreements have, when published, an authority superior to that of the law, subject for each treaty and agreement to the application by the other party’.

5 The Global and Inclusive Agreement Sun City 16 December 2016, section V http://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/global-and-inclusive-agreement-transition-dr-congo-inter-congolese.

6 UN Secretary General Report on Conflict Related Sexual Violence 23 March 2015 http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2015/203.

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This work was supported by The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants [grant number SG 150505].