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Projects

Tasked with producing the most innovative work in the field, the ICTJ Research Unit addresses important gaps in scholarship and provides comparative analysis of transitional justice measures and the difficult contexts in which they take place to ICTJ staff and to practitioners worldwide.

Over the past eight years, the Research Unit has developed a series of cutting-edge initiatives.


The Research Unit's projects are designed to pass muster in the most rigorous and demanding academic settings, but, at the same time, to be useful for policy makers and practitioners.

One of the goals of all Research Unit projects is to build policymakers' and practitioners' capacity to confront the difficult choices they will face in designing measures of redress for mass atrocity. Policymakers operate in a complex and dynamic environment without access to perfect information. To make sound judgments and have durable effects, policymakers require more than empirical research alone. They need the tools that only normative research can provide the identification of competing priorities and the development of reasoning for making choices among them. Thus, the findings of both the Unit's reparations and vetting projects have fed into the production of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Rule of Law Tools for Post-Conflict States, which will help guide policy decisions throughout the world.

Major research currently underway includes projects on:


Past projects:

 

(Updated February 2010)

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