The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo is pleased to announce a lecture on June 19 by Dr. Yazid Ben Hounet (CNRS, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Paris). Dr. Ben Hounet will analyze the question of compensation in the national reconciliation processes in contemporary Algeria and Morocco from an anthropological viewpoint. We invited Dr. Nozomi Shiratani (Aichi Prefectural University) as a discussant. The lecture will be held hybrid and open to the public. A registration is required for online participants.

Abstract: Algeria and Morocco have put in place policies of “reconciliation”. At the heart, we find one practice: (monetary) compensation for the crimes committed. Compensation remains a central practice of reconciliation mechanisms in North Africa, but it alone fails to integrate the expectations of reparations, as they are increasingly promoted here and elsewhere; i.e., more focused on the “condition of the victim” (Rechtman, 2011).