Mak LLM Students attend 2025 Summer School of the Academy of European Law on Human Rights

Makerere University School of Law (SoL) Master of Laws (LLM) students: Priscilla Nayiga, Ivan Twongyeirwe, and Patience Ayesigye have successfully completed the 2025 Summer School of the Academy of European Law on Human Rights in Florence, Italy under the theme ‘Peace-making, what the law has to do with it’.

The seminar held from the 16th – 27th June 2025 was guided by the pedagogical philosophy, ‘we learn by doing’. Participants prepared and enacted a role in a moot peace negotiation process in which questions of peace, justice and law arise. The moot is based on peace negotiation that took place between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army between 2006 and 2008, Colombian peace process and the Philippine peace talks. Participants researched the aforementioned negotiations.

Based on their research, the participants try to enact as closely to what they understand the history to have been or deviate from it with a view to showing how things could have been done differently.

In the reflection sessions, participants of the summer school discussed the moot on the following premises: What happened, and how does this compare to the historical peace talks? What explains what happened? What role did international law play in the peace talks? What is the relevant international law? Could the law have been interpreted differently? What difference would it have made?