{"id":67987,"date":"2016-04-14T13:19:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T11:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/opening-ceremony-of-the-african-union-kofi-annan-foundation-and-ictj-conference-on-truth-commissions-and-peace-processes\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T11:19:25","slug":"opening-ceremony-of-the-african-union-kofi-annan-foundation-and-ictj-conference-on-truth-commissions-and-peace-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/opening-ceremony-of-the-african-union-kofi-annan-foundation-and-ictj-conference-on-truth-commissions-and-peace-processes\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Ceremony of the African Union, Kofi Annan Foundation, and ICTJ Conference on Truth Commissions and Peace Processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 14, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>INVITATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>What:<\/p>\n<p>High-level Conference: Truth Commissions and Peace Processes in Africa. Discussions during the two-day Conference will focus on many of the critical issues that peace mediators and practitioners need to take into account when considering including a truth commission as part of a peace process.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>When:<\/p>\n<p>Opening Ceremony, 1000 \u2013 1100h 18 April 2016<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Where:<\/p>\n<p>Committee Room I, Old AU Conference Complex,<\/p>\n<p>AU Commission headquarters, Addis Ababa<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Who:<\/p>\n<p>The Conference will be hosted by the African Union (AU), in partnership with the Kofi Annan Foundation and the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). Senior staff from the African Union and member states as well as international and national experts will reflect on lessons learned from truth commissions that have emerged from peace processes in Africa and other continents. Opening Statements by:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Ambassador Smail Chergui, AU Commissioner for Peace and Security<br \/>Kofi Annan, Chair of the\u00a0Kofi Annan Foundation<br \/>David Tolbert, President of the International Center for Transitional Justice<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Journalists are invited to cover the Opening Ceremony<\/p>\n<p>On Monday 18 April 2016 at 1000 \u2013 1100h<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Conference Twitter hash tag: #truth4peace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 14, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; INVITATION TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA What: High-level Conference: Truth Commissions and Peace Processes in Africa. Discussions during the two-day Conference will focus on many of the critical issues that peace mediators and practitioners need to take into account when considering including a truth commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-67987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}