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April 1, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS: Sur Journal

The Human Rights University Network and the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) welcome contributions to be published in a special issue of Sur - International Journal on Human Rights on Transitional Justice.

The Sur Journal is published twice a year, distributed free of charge to approximately 2,700 readers in over 100 countries. It is edited in three languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish and can also be accessed online at www.surjournal.org.

The Journal aims at disseminating a Global Southern perspective on human rights and to facilitate exchange among professors and activists from the Global South without disregarding contributions from other regions.

For our next issue - No. 7 -, we will prioritize articles which, preferentially but not exclusively, address the following topics related to the debate of transitional justice:

• Prosecutions: Criminal justice is an essential part of an integrated response to massive human rights violations, and should be pursued whenever possible. While prosecutions must necessarily focus on the accused, these efforts should also aim to restore victims' dignity and public confidence in the rule of law.

• Truth Seeking: In an increasing number of countries, local actors have begun to emphasize nonjudicial truth-seeking measures. These have often taken the form of truth commissions - official inquiries into patterns of past abuse that seek to establish an accurate historical record of events.

• Reparations: How does a nation seek to repair harm, restore rights, and build trust when victims number in the thousands over a period of many years?

• Vetting: The screening and vetting of individuals, particularly in the security and justice sectors, is widely recognized as a key measure of governance reform essential to: overcoming legacies of past conflict or authoritarian rule; preventing the recurrence of abuses; and building fair and efficient public institutions.

• Memory: Memorials for past atrocities and human rights abuses are places of mourning, and in some cases, healing, for victims and survivors. But the designers of these memorials also want to communicate to broader audiences; to educate people about the past; and to proclaim "Never Again". These two sets of goals are not always perfectly compatible, resulting in periodic tensions between them.

As aforementioned, these themes are not exclusive, but only preferential. Sur Journal issue No. 7 will also include some articles dealing with general human rights topics.

Format
Contributions should be sent in electronic form (MS Word format) to surjournal@surjournal.org and should follow these guidelines:

• Between 7,000 and 10,000 words.

• Concise and objective footnotes. (Please find at the end of this text the rules for citation.)

• Short biography of author with a maximum of 50 words.

• Abstract with no more than 150 words, including keywords for the required bibliographical classification.

• Date when the paper was written.

Only submissions received by May 15, 2007 will be considered for issue No. 7. Articles received after that date will be considered for subsequent issues.

Ideally articles should be original and unpublished. Exceptionally, however, relevant contributions already published elsewhere may be accepted, provided that the required authorizations are granted. Please inform if, where and when the paper has been published before.

Contributions will be evaluated by at least two members of the Editorial or the Consultative Board of the Sur Journal and, whenever necessary, also by external specialists. For this special issue, contributions will also be evaluated by a member of the ICTJ. Any suggested changes will be submitted to the authors and published only with their explicit authorization.

As the Journal is distributed free of charge, we are unfortunately unable to remunerate our contributors.

Sur Journal uses Creative Commons license 2.5.

RULES OF CITATION/REGRAS DE CITAÇÃO/REGLAS PARA NOTAS AL PIE DE PÁGINA

Please do not add a bibliography at the end of the paper. All the references should be included in the footnotes.

Por favor não adicione referências bibliográficas ao final do texto. Todas as referências devem ser incluídas em notas de rodapé.

Por favor no incluya bibliografía al final del texto. Todas las referencias deben ser incluidas en el texto del artículo en notas al pie de página.

Books/Livros/Libros:

Jürgen Habermas, Die neue Unübersichtlichkeit, Frankfurt, Editora Suhrkamp, 1985, p. 1.

Papers published in books/Artigos publicados em livros/Artículos publicados en libros:

Maria Paula Dalari Bucci, "Buscando um conceito de políticas públicas para a concretização dos direitos humanos", in Bucci et al (Org.), Direitos humanos e políticas públicas, São Paulo, Pólis, 2001, pp. 5-13.

Robert Howse, "The legitimacy of the World Trade Organization", in J. Coicaud, V. Heiskanen (org.), The legitimacy of international organizations, Tokyo, United Nations University Press, 2001, p. 355.

Papers published in journals/Artigos publicados em periódicos/Artículos publicados en revistas:

Flávia Piovesan, "Direitos econômicos, sociais e culturais e direitos políticos", Sur: Revista Internacional de Direitos Humanos, São Paulo, Ano 1, n. 1, pp. 21-47, 2005, p. 23.

Steve Charnovitz, John Wickham, "Non-governmental organizations and the original international trade regime", Journal of World Trade, v. 29, n. 5, pp. 111-22, 1995, p. 115.

Eletronic resources/Documentos retirados da internet/Documentos extraídos de internet:

Jeffrey Dunoff, Mission impossible: resolving the WTO's trilemma, 2003, Available at , access in April, 23, 2005, p. 3.

Jeffrey Dunoff, Mission impossible: resolving the WTO's trilemma, 2003, Disponível em , acesso em 23 de abril de 2005, p. 3.

Jeffrey Dunoff, Mission impossible: resolving the WTO's trilemma, 2003, Disponible en , acceso en 23 de abril de 2005, p. 3.

Governmental resources/Documentos governamentais/Documentos governamentales:

Brasil, Secretaria de Direitos Humanos, Relatório sobre Educação em Direitos Humanos, Brasília: SEFOR, 1995, p. 3.

United States of América, Bureau of African Affairs, Niger: Background notes, available at , access on March 23, 2006.

Thesis/Teses/Teses:

Daniela Ikawa, Concepção de ser humano e direito à redistribuição: O caso da ação afirmativa (Tese de Doutorado), São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, 2006, p. 203.

Laws/Leis/Leyes:

Brasil, Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil de 5 de outubro de 1988, São Paulo: Saraiva, 1990, art. 5º.

Brasil, Lei n. 7716, de 5 de janeiro de 1989, disponível em , acesso em 21 de março de 2006.

Brazil, Act n. 7716, January 5, 1989, available at , access on March 21, 2006.

Judicial cases/decisões judiciais/Decisiones judiciales:

Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Velásquez Rodríguez v. Honduras, sentence, July 29, 1998, par. 7.

Brasil, Superior Tribunal de Justiça, Acórdão em ação recisória n. 12, José Silva v. Estado de São Paulo, DJ, 20 de novembro de 2004, par. 10.

Newspaper/Jornal/Diario:

John Schwartz, Big, maybe ugly, but their role heroic, New York Times, March 23, 2006, National, p. 3.