JRR coordinating group Meeting

30 April 2008

On 30 April 2008, No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), in its capacity as Interim JRR Secretariat, organised the second meeting of the JRR Coordinating Group, kindly hosted by the Mission of Canada to the European Union in Brussels.  The meeting was convened as a follow-up to the first JRR Coordinating Group in New York on 29 November 2007 (Eng/Fr).  

The meeting was convened to disucss the following issues:

1. ‘Where the JRR is now’, with a review of the Terms of Reference of the Coordinating Group and review of the outreach conducted thus far;
2. ‘Where the JRR should go’, with lessons learnt from the No Peace Without Justice/Kenya National Commission for Human Rights mission in Kenya;
3. ‘How do we get there’, with a presentation and discussion on rosters and training; and
4. ‘Next steps’, with a brief discussion on funding of the JRR and a review of the Terms of Reference of a Permanent JRR Secretariat.

Members of the JRR Coordinating Group adopted several documents during the meeting, including Terms of Reference of the Coordinating Group; the “Frequently Asked Questions” outreach tool; and the Terms of Reference for the Permanent JRR Secretariat on an ad referendum basis.  Each of these documents can be found in the annexes to the JRR Coordinating Group meeting report.

The Report from the JRR Coordinating Group Meeting on 30 April 2008 (Eng/French to follow) details the discussions that took place, which - together with the Outcome Document (on the first page of the Meeting Report) - are forming another step in the future preparations towards eventual deployment.