Reintegration must be regarded not merely as a post-release intervention for persons formerly in conflict with the law or involuntarily returned migrants (IRMs), but as a rights-based and inclusive development priority.
This is the position advanced by Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Dr. Dacia Leslie, as she addressed day one of the 10th Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Best Practice Symposium at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday (January 27). Read full story ...