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Item The prospects of the African union transitional justice policy 2019 and sustainable peace in Africa(Department of International Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, lle-lfe, Nigeria, 2023) Adeyemo, D. D.The African Union (A U) adopted the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJ Policy) in 2019 against the backdrop of attaining sustainable peace within the African continent. The Policy was designed to serve as a continental guide to member States in the design and implementation of context-specific transitional justice programmes within their respective States. The Policy incorporates indigenous principles and elements which member States should adopt to domesticate transitional justice. Presumably, over the years, the African continent has had the highest number of States confronting conflict situations or repressive regimes. Hence, it would appear that the Policy is a timely intervention of the AU in pursuing its agenda of a peaceable and stable continent. The Policy makes several bold innovations and provisions which are potentially capable of transforming the structure for peace and security in Africa. This study attempts to examine the provisions of the Policy against the conventional narratives of transitional justice principles and mechanisms and the goal of sustainable peace. Is the Policy just another document which will wield little or less significant impact within the continent? The paper adopts a purely doctrinal and desktop review approach in analysing the provisions of the AUTJ Policy within the context of the concept of transitional justice and sustainable peace. The study makes use of data from both primary and secondary sources of law and argues that while the adoption of the Policy is an innovative move, it runs the risk of irrelevance where its provisions are merely recommendatory and elicit no binding obligations from member states.Item Human right-based approach to disaster risk management(Safari Books Limited, Ibadan, 2018) Adeyemo, D. D.Since the beginning of the 21st century, there has been an increasing trend of disasters caused by natural hazards such as earthquake, tsunami, hurricane, flood etc., and trends in climate change show increasing vulnerability and exposure of people to such disasters. Disasters have huge economic, environmental and social impacts ranging from loss of life, injury, disease displacement and other negative effects on human, physical, mental and social wellbeing, to damage to property, destruction of assets, loss of services, social and economic disruption, and environmental degradation. While disasters predispose victims (especially vulnerable groups such as children, women and persons with disabilities) to human rights violations emanating from disaster impacts, disaster risk management requires a holistic approach which integrates the rights of victims. Disaster risk management encompasses a systematic process of implementing strategies for preparing, responding and recovery from disaster in order to lessen the adverse impacts of hazard and reduce the possibility of disaster. Thus, human rights protection forms an important part of disaster risk management. The United Nations presupposes that human rights principles should guide disaster risk management, ranging from pre-disaster mitigation and preparedness measures to emergency relief and rehabilitation efforts. Even though there are a number of international soft law instruments concerning the rights of victims in disaster and State obligations in disaster prevention and management activities, the operational context of these rules should be explored in order to ensure an effective disaster risk management regime. Human rights may also provide appropriate mechanisms for compensation for preventable disaster losses. This article considers the subject of disaster risk management from a human rights perspective.