Analysis

The Center produces a range of analytical publications targeted at practitioners, policymakers, academics, and others engaged with the field of transitional justice.

In early 2004, the Center launched a Case Study Series available on the ICTJ web site and in hardcopy. Some of these papers provide brief descriptions of specific transitional justice institutions that are in operation around the world or have recently concluded while others offer an overview of justice initiatives in a certain country or context.

Case Study papers have been published on

• the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• the Sierra Leone Special Court
• transitional justice developments in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia and Montenegro

 

A forthcoming Case Study will cover the Ghana National Reconciliation Commission.

The ICTJ is also committed to publishing comparative thematic analyses such as "Truth Commissions and NGOs: The Essential Relationship"—the result of a collaboration among members of truth commissions from around the world.

The Center will soon publish a comparative study of hybrid tribunals focused on Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and Timor-Leste, and an analysis of information management options for truth commissions.

The ICTJ's Occasional Paper Series provides in-depth analysis of specific transitional justice initiatives. This series includes publications on

• the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• the Mexican Special Prosecutor's Office
• the Ad Hoc Human Rights Court in Indonesia
• a survey of transitional justice initiatives throughout Indonesia
• justice and reconciliation in Timor-Leste
• property restitution in the context of transitional justice
• surveys about attitudes toward transitional justice in Iraq and Uganda.

 

See the Publications page for more details and downloadable versions of these and other documents.

(Updated August 2008)