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By Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide

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Fellows watch interview training

Makwanyane Institute 2018: Fellows watch trainer Celia Rumann (United States) demonstrate client interviewing skills with actor Godfrey Simmons at Cornell University, New York.

2019 Makwanyane Institute Call for Applications

The Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide is pleased to accept applications for its third Makwanyane Institute, an intensive training workshop for capital defenders. The Makwanyane Institute will take place in Franschhoek, South Africa from July 28 to August 8, 2019. Named in honor of the South African Constitutional Court’s seminal decision abolishing the death penalty, the Makwanyane Institute will offer selected Fellows the opportunity to participate in specialized training, litigation support, and community-building.

The Institute invites applications from criminal defense lawyers practicing in common law jurisdictions in Africa, including Botswana, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Applications are due March 18, 2019.

The 2019 Makwanyane Fellows will travel from July 28 to August 8, 2019 to South Africa to be trained and mentored by a team of leading experts in death penalty representation. After training, the participants will join a growing network of Makwanyane Fellows throughout Africa who are devoted to innovative practices and challenges to the application of the death penalty. Fellows are expected to organize follow-up trainings in their country of practice to spread the lessons they learn at the Institute to their colleagues and beyond.

Airfare, accommodation, and meals are provided for Makwanyane Fellows.

The application form and more information is here: www.bit.ly/makwanyaneinstitute.

 

A woman in a pink dress and glasses and a man in an orange and gray shirt sit next to each other on the ground. The woman looks at the man.

Three people sit in a circle, one on a chair and two on the ground. Two of the people, a man in a red shirt and a woman in a black dress, look intently at the third person, a man in an orange and gray striped shirt. Three people sit at a table in front of notebooks and a laptop. A woman speaks while the man and woman on either side of her look at her. A woman in a black dress and a man in an orange and gray shirt sit in chairs facing each other, and the woman is speaking to the man. Another woman and man sit on chairs in the background watching them. Four people sit around a table with binders open in front of them. A man in a blue shirt smiles at the person next to him. A man in a checkered shirt speaks while sitting at a table. He is leaning over a binder on the table as he speaks and making explanatory hand motions. A man in a suit and a man in a red shirt and hat look at him, sitting at the table on either side. A man and a woman look at each other, sitting on the ground in the front of the room in front of a projected presentation. Approximately forty people with notebooks and binders sit in a U-shape around the two presenters, some at tables and others in chairs against the walls. A woman in a pink dress sits at the head of a table, smiling with her hand on her chest. Six people sit or stand around the table in front of binders and notebooks. Five people are seated at a table with binders in front of them. A woman in the middle of the ground speaks, her gaze directed off camera towards the center of the room, as those around her listen. A man in a checkered shirt sitting at a table speaks, his gaze directed off camera towards the front of the room. Two women sitting next to him look at him. A woman sitting at a table covered in binders speaks while making explanatory hand gestures. The man sitting next her looks at her. A woman and a man sit at a table covered in binders and notebooks. The woman speaks, gesturing with her hands and furrowing her brow, while the man holds a pen over a notebook. The woman and the man both look off camera towards the front of the room.