Biography
Research interests:
- Transitional justice
- International criminal justice
- Local customary norms
- International law
Aboubacar Dakuyo is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa. His research interests are centered on the establishment of transitional justice mechanisms in the context of major human rights violations. His current research focuses on the role of local customary norms in the implementation of transitional justice in South Sudan.
Aboubacar Dakuyo has Masters in International Law (LLM) from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). As a part of his studies, he wrote a memoire on transitional justice in the wake of the genocides perpetrated in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Aboubacar also has a Master of Arts (MA) in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. At the end of this programme, he wrote a memoire on the role played by Burkina Faso migrants in the First Ivorian Civil War in 2002.
Aboubacar is also a research assistant at the University of Ottawa, where he hosts conferences, workshops, and roundtables on different subjects related to major human rights violations in general, and more precisely on transitional justice.