Although it has been just ten months since the opening of the office of Tibetan Legal Association, the Tibetans, Tibetan supporters and foreigners who support cause of Tibet shows interest and concern. It is all because of the hard work of staff of TLA and its results solving the legal issues of Tibetans successfully.
On 2nd December,2016, Professor Dr. Tamara Relis paid a visit to Tibetan Legal Association. Dr.Tamara Relis is a US immigration attorney (New York), with experience as a US law professor of evidence, human rights and conflict resolution, and a postdoctoral legal researcher at Columbia University Law School and the LSE. While practicing as a US attorney in North America, she is also both a barrister (trial lawyer) and a solicitor, with litigation and court experience throughout England and Wales.
Dr. Tamara Relis discussed about the collaboration work on the research project on the experiences of Tibetans in Exile relating to civil, political, social, economic and cultural issues including human rights in Tibet and India. TLA has undertaken and signed a Contract as Project Consultant for Dr. Tamara’s Research work on Tibetan Conflict resolution ” a Project with London School of Economic with effect from 1 March 2017.
Project Abstract: The Tibetan justice system, (TJS), infused with human rights principles and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, cultivating calm minds, compassion, and inter connectedness with others, offers a new paradigm of conflict settlement that has the potential to radically transform modern legal systems’ approaches to harm, conflict and its resolution in the West.
Her Research Project aims to document the unheard voices and provides new insights into human rights internalization and the influence of religion on settlement of disputes.
It incorporates human rights norms, undocumented Tibetan customary laws and Buddhist philosophy as leading values for the administration of justice applicable to a wide variety of conflict types that can be applied in the West and globally.
