JRR New York Meeting

November 2007

On 28 November 2007, No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), in its capacity as Interim JRR Secretariat, organised the Justice Rapid Response Meeting, with the support of the Governments of Canada, Finland, Sierra Leone, Sweden, and the European Union, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The meeting was convened to consider the Recommendations of the JRR Steering Committee (Eng/Fr), constituted pursuant to the previous Justice Rapid Response Meeting held in New York in March 2007.

The meeting adopted the Report of the JRR Steering Committee, following which the participants formed themselves into the Policy Group referred to in the Report.  Having done so, the newly-constituted Policy Group indicated that they considered the Guidelines for Cooperation and Deployment (Eng/Fr) to be a suitable and useful framework for the initial implementation of the conceptual work and therefore adopted the Guidelines to serve as the initial coordinating mechanism on an interim basis.  A Coordinating Group was then formed to prepare the next steps forward for the JRR Mechanism

The Report from the JRR Meeting on 28 November 2007 (Eng/Fr) details the discussions that took place, which - together with the Outcome Document (Eng/Fr) will form the basis for the future preparations towards eventual deployment.  The first meeting of the JRR Coordinating Group took place on 29 November 2007 (Report Eng/Fr).