This open forum was jointly organised by The African Leadership Centre (ALC) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), on 24 April 2015 at the ALC in Nairobi. The forum titled Victims in the Workings of International Criminal Justice in Africa: Lessons for and from the Kenya was part of the International Criminal Justice, Reconciliation and Peace in Africa: The ICC and Beyond Programme which is a programme CODESRIA has run together with the Social Science Research Council. The broad goal of the programme is to significantly improve the quality of scholarship, debates and policy on international criminal justice, peace and reconciliation in Africa while further democratizing the nature of conversations on the subject through conferences, the conduct and dissemination of studies and policy engagement.