Prospects for Peace and Transitional Justice in Syria

2016 Rubin International Human Rights Award recipient Deyaa Alrwishdi has worked at the national and international level to defend victims of human rights violations in Syria, including directly representing political prisoners and activists arrested at protests. He also documents violations and atrocities across Syria as a researcher with the Damascus Center for Human Rights. After several years representing individual political prisoners, he sought to achieve more systemic impact by founding the Free Syrian Lawyers Association (FLSA) a diaspora network of legal practitioners working to train other lawyers in human rights and reform the Syrian justice system in order to lay a foundation for a transition to rule of law.

He will speak to us about the current situation in Syria, as well as prospects for peace and transitional justice in the future.