BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Alternative Justice Systems - ECPv6.0.13.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Alternative Justice Systems X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ajskenya.or.ke X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Alternative Justice Systems REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Africa/Nairobi BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 TZNAME:EAT DTSTART:20220101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20221214T080000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20221217T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T170133 CREATED:20221111T130114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221111T130114Z UID:3729-1671004800-1671296400@ajskenya.or.ke SUMMARY:ELC Judges Training DESCRIPTION: URL:https://ajskenya.or.ke/event/elc-judges-training/ ORGANIZER;CN="NaSCI-AJS":MAILTO:ajs.secretariat@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20230104T080000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20230106T170000 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URL:https://ajskenya.or.ke/event/mombasa-county-cuc-meeting/ CATEGORIES:CAP ORGANIZER;CN="NaSCI-AJS":MAILTO:ajs.secretariat@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20230119T080000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20230120T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T170133 CREATED:20221111T130510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221111T130510Z UID:3737-1674115200-1674234000@ajskenya.or.ke SUMMARY:NLAS Training DESCRIPTION: URL:https://ajskenya.or.ke/event/nlas-training/ CATEGORIES:Sensitization ORGANIZER;CN="NaSCI-AJS":MAILTO:ajs.secretariat@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20230123T080000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20230128T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T170133 CREATED:20221111T130553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221111T130553Z UID:3739-1674460800-1674925200@ajskenya.or.ke SUMMARY:Kajiado AJS Clinic Week DESCRIPTION: URL:https://ajskenya.or.ke/event/kajiado-ajs-clinic-week/ CATEGORIES:CAP END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20230124T080000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20230127T170000 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SUMMARY:Kajiado Joint CUC Meeting DESCRIPTION: URL:https://ajskenya.or.ke/event/kajiado-joint-cuc-meeting/ CATEGORIES:CAP ORGANIZER;CN="NaSCI-AJS":MAILTO:ajs.secretariat@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20230626T080000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20230628T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T170133 CREATED:20221115T095447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230623T213404Z UID:3755-1687766400-1687971600@ajskenya.or.ke SUMMARY:2nd Annual AJS Conference DESCRIPTION:About the Conference \nTHE 2nd NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALTERNATIVE JUSTICE SYSTEMS IN KENYA \nTHEME: AJS AS CULTURE AND INNOVATION IN ACCELERATING SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH ACCESS TO JUSTICE \n  \nDate:                                                                                       26th – 28th June 2023 \nVenue:                                                                                    Tangaza University College \nConvener:                                                                              NaSCI-AJS \n  \n  \nOverview: \nThe National Steering Committee on the Implementation of the Alternative Justice Systems Policy (NaSCI-AJS) will convene the 2nd Annual National Conference on Alternative Justice Systems in Kenya. The conference will bring together justice actors\, practitioners\, judicial officers\, academics\, policy makers\, civil society actors\, development partners\, and all stakeholders in the Access to Justice Ecosystem. The conference will be fulfilling one of the major objectives of the committee to rally all sectors of Kenyan social\, religious\, judiciary and cultural life to continuously and emphatically support the AJS mechanism and expand the pool of individuals and groups accessing justice in Kenya. \nBackground: \nThere is compelling evidence to prove that the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and related justice activism has significantly boosted access to justice in Kenya. The quest for justice has been characterized by increasing demand for local knowledge\, de-emphasizing of legal technicalities\, and the call for collaborative partnership between justice seekers and providers. The concept of justice in the Constitution of kenya 2010 has placed positive pressure on formal or state based judice institutions both in regard to the substantive nature of justice they provide\, as well as in regard to the recognition of other sites of justice provision and their relation thereto. \nIt is against this background\, framed by the constitutional imperative on justice\, that the Judiciary\, among other initiatives\, established the National Steering Committee on Implementation of Alternative Justice Systems (NaSCI- AJS)\, a multi-stakeholders’ team\, gazetted by the Honorable Chief Justice Martha Koome\, with the mandate to ensure the mainstreaming and acceleration in the implementation of the Judiciary AJS Policy and providing support for AJS practitioners and mechanisms in Kenya. \nA foundational principle in the AJS Policy is that the conversation on access to justice in postcolonial Kenya is broad and multifaceted. It is not merely to advance provision for the alternative models for dispute resolution and accessing justice listed under Article 159(2((c) of the Constitution 2010\, rather\, it is a re-engagement with the ruminants of colonial and Eurocentric legal reasoning that the Constitution of Kenya has now reversed. The AJS Conferences are a re-emphasis on the importance of the critical historical and contextual study of African legalities and neither about a re-statement nor some sort of re-assertion of the elements\, perceived or actual of customary or African law(s). \nThe AJS Policy asserts that in its inclusive idea of access to justice\, the Constitution of Kenya 2010 envisages a sociological\, situated and contextual imagination of law\, legality and justice. This is a diverse landscape of everyday realities that is situated in social justice with support from a range of discourses including political theory\, anthropological theory and literary criticism amongst others. This novel constitutional idea of law and and justice set in a complex\, plural society requires a new pedagogy of legal study and justice seeking/providing practices. Using findings from the AJS Baseline and Framework Polices as well as the justice practices of the range of actors\, state and non-state\, institutional and non-institutional\, individual and communal\, the AJS Conference is a both an expansion of these explorations as well as a consensus building conversation on what it means to realise the constitutional concept of justice and operationalise the multi-door methods of accessing Justice in Kenya. \nThe Conference has coined its theme “AJS as Culture and Innovation in Accelerating Social Transformation through Access to Justice”. The theme appreciates the embodiment of AJS in moral economy of justice. As culture is a center and signifier of the moral economy\, it appreciates that culture is a multi-functional concept with the capacity to explain identity as well as practice. This meaning departs from those who see culture as small-scale\, bounded entity\, static and with self-produced meaning.   Therefore\, in expounding the theme\, the conference is a contribution to the debate\, practice and discourse of politicization of culture in the quest for justice. In so doing\, this 2nd AJS National Conference seeks to highlight initiatives aimed at building localised justice mechanisms in across all of Kenya’s counties. Key questions that the 2nd AJS Conference seeks to address include: \n\nTo what extent is the nexus between justice and cultural practices impacting access to justice for the majority of the justice seekers in Kenya?\nWhich sustainable Alternative Justice Mechanism’s initiatives/ indigenous knowledge/strategies exist in building justice communities?\nWhat lessons could be learned from these strategies/initiatives accelerate and expand access to justice in Kenya?\n\nThe conference covers issues around (a) Existing Alternative Justice Systems models and the implications for Social Transformation; (b) Culture and Justice nexus’ impact on access to justice for vulnerable populations in Kenya – rural/urban; Men/Women; Adult/Children; Elderly/Youth; and (c) Building Plural Justice Society in Kenya – method and strategies. \nAxis and Sub-themes: \n\n Culture as Revelation \n\n– Exploring culture in the Context of Article 1 of Constitution of Kenya \n– Culture and being and becoming Kenya \n– Positionality perspectives on gender\, youth and class \n\n Culture as Innovation \n\n– Exploring culture as cumulative civilization towards justice \n– Indigenous/local knowledge in building a just society \n– Multicultural and Plural conversations for Justice \n\n Justice and Innovation \n\n– Genealogies and Multiple Meanings of Justice \n– Indigenous Knowledge perspectives on Justice \n– Emerging Justice Activism in the efforts for culture\, Justice and Law nexus \n  \nFormat and potential speakers \nThe conference format will be an in-person panel discussion. The moderator(s) will introduce speakers and pose key framing questions intended to draw out the main messages expected from each contributor. There will be opportunities for facilitated exchange between the moderator(s) and speakers\, and between the speakers and audience. \nA planning committee will reach out to potential speakers based on the key profiles. The speakers will be selected based on the quality of their paper and how the same aligns to the conference theme. The committee will rely on the conference planning committee members\, to connect with\, confirm\, and pre-brief speakers. Speakers will be briefed in advance on key insights and recommendations in the difference sub themes and asked to transmit specific key messages aligned with them. Every effort will be made to ensure that speakers constitute a high-level ensemble reflecting gender balance. \nSpeakers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hon. Justice Martha Koome\, EGH \n \n Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hon. Justice Philomena Mbete Mwilu\, MGH \n \n Deputy Chief Justice and Vice-President of the Supreme Court of Kenya \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Justice (Dr.) Smokin Wanjala \n \n Judge of the Supreme Court of Kenya \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ho. Justice (Prof) Joel Ngugi \n \n Court of Appeal Judge \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Steve Ouma Akoth \n \n Vice Chair NaSCI-AJS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Steve Ouma \n \n Director Kenya Judiciary Academy \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hon. Joseph Ole Lenku \n \n Governor County Government of Kajiado \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nConference Downloads\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n File\n Size\n Type\n Published\n Download\n \n \n \n \n AJS Conference Program\n 3.69 MB\n PDF\n 2023/06/24\n Download\n \n \n Conference Poster\n 6.13 MB\n PNG\n 2023/05/29\n Download\n \n \n AJS Conference Concpet Note\n 538.92 KB\n PDF\n 2023/05/29\n Download\n \n \n 2nd Annual AJS Conference Call for Papers\n 424.10 KB\n PDF\n 2023/03/09\n Download\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\nPartners URL:https://ajskenya.or.ke/event/2nd-ajs-conference/ LOCATION:Tangaza University\, Tangaza University College\, Nairobi\, Kenya ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ajskenya.or.ke/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/image-2-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="NaSCI-AJS":MAILTO:ajs.secretariat@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR