Gerald Gahima

Mr. Gerald Gahima recently provided his observations and insights to key focus questions during Partners International Foundation's Healthy Africa Scenarios Exercise (HASE 2008). Workshop 1 was held January 2008 in Accra Ghana. Mr. Gahima's comments also address the global impact and other significance of the HASE 2008 series.

Gerald Gahima is native of Rwanda, but he has lived, studied and worked in many countries. He practiced commercial law in Kenya before joining public service during the early 1990's. Gerald Gahima had long experience in the Rwandan public sector prior to his current work in international development. He served in government in various capacities, including Permanent Secretary, Deputy Minister, Attorney General, and Deputy Chief Justice over a period of ten years. Mr. Gahima's time of service in the Rwandan government coincided with the reconstruction of the country following the war and genocide. Gerald Gahima was instrumental in the formulation of national policy on rule of law issues. He was intimately involved in the establishment and operation of both judicial and alternative mechanisms of accountability for the genocide and other grave violations of human rights that were committed during the war. Mr. Gahima was also responsible for the formulation and implementation of wide-ranging reforms of the justice sector affecting the Ministry of Justice, the court system, the prosecution service, the judicial police and the national prisons service. Mr. Gahima has continued to work on issues relating to transitional justice since government service. He was involved in the establishment of the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia Herzegovina. He was Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace prior to his current assignment in East Timor. Mr Gerald Gahima has very considerable experience on legal systems of states in or emerging from conflict or authoritarian rule and is generally recognised as an expert transitional justice. His work combines both theoretical knowledge and practical experience on issues relating this field. He is also keenly interested on issues relating to human rights in societies in transition. He is frequently invited as a speaker at conferences and seminars worldwide to talk about this subject and is in the process of writing a book on the subject. Gerald Gahima is a graduate of Makerere University (Uganda) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (London).

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