Notes
1 The ideas and material presented here are based on workshops, organised by FriEnt in Berlin and Bonn in 2010 and 2011, on the interface between transitional justice, peacebuilding and development cooperation (http://www.frient.de/en/transitional-justice-and-development.html) and on presentations given at a GIZ meeting in Kigali in November 2011, the Essex Transitional Justice Network meeting in Colchester/ Essex in September 2012 (http://www.essex.ac.uk/tjn/) and the medicus mundi international meeting in Amsterdam in October 2012 (http://www.medicusmundi.org/en/contributions/events/2012/health-systems-strengthening-in-fragile-states.-mmi-ntwork-meeting). We would like to thank all participants for sharing their experience and thoughtful insights. Responsibility for interpretation is entirely ours.
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Sylvia Servaes
Sylvia Servaes is desk officer at the church-based German development organisation Misereor for consultation on justice, peace and human rights in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. She serves as a team member on behalf of Misereor in the Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt), an association of nine German state and civil society organisations working in the field of development and peacebuilding. Her current subject areas include transitional justice.
Natascha Zupan
Natascha Zupan is coordinator of the Working Group on Peace and Development. Before joining FriEnt, she worked for KOFF/Swisspeace and the Swiss Foreign Ministry, focusing on peacebuilding and development as well as transitional justice in former Yugoslav countries and the Middle East.