Quote of the week
[T]he moral point of the matter is never reached by calling what happened by the name of ‘genocide’ or by counting the many millions of victims: extermination of whole peoples had happened before in antiquity, as well as in modern colonization. It is reached only when we realize this happened within the frame of a legal order and that the cornerstone of this ‘new law’ consisted of the command ‘Thou shall kill,’ not thy enemy but innocent people who were not even potentially dangerous, and not for any reason of necessity but, on the contrary, even against all military and other utilitarian calculations. … And these deeds were not committed by outlaws, monsters, or raving sadists, but by the most respected members of respectable society.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on The Banality of Evil
Announcement: Good governance in Land Tenure Conference
Good Governance Project
The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Faculty of Law, NWU (Potchefstroom) cordially invite all interested parties from the judiciary, government departments, private practice, non-governmental organisations and academic institutions to a two-day colloquium on: Good governance in land tenure 22 and 23 April 2010
Venue: Faculty of Law, North-west University, Potchefstroom
The programme will, inter alia, focus on: • International perspectives on the meaning of good governance in land tenure • Good governance in land restitution, including pre- and post-settlement support • Good governance in land redistribution, including pre- and post-settlement support • Good governance in the reform of communal land tenure and land registration • Good governance in land planning
Reservations for attendance should be made no later than Monday 7 April 2010
THE PROJECT IS SPONSORED BY THE KONRAD-ADENAUER STIFTUNG
