Publications
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Date published: 6/9/2017
Not Without Dignity: Views of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon on Displacement, Conditions of Return, and Coexistence
Download PDFDiscussions about a future return of refugees and coexistence among groups currently at war in Syria must begin now.
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Date published: 5/23/2017
"We Cannot Forget": Truth and Memory in Post-Conflict Nepal
Download PDFThere is widespread misunderstanding of transitional justice in Nepal, and relevant policy is often motivated by the interests of political leaders and other powerful actors, like the Nepal Army, with little regard for the rights and needs of victims. This report, a collaboration between ICTJ and the Nepali NGO Martin Chautari, aims to broaden the understanding and awareness of what truth in transitional justice in Nepal actually means for diverse sets of stakeholders.
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Date published: 5/12/2017
Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies - Report
Download PDFThis report presents the main findings of a multiyear research project conducted by the International Center for Transitional Justice on the challenges and opportunities of responding to serious and massive human rights violations in different contexts. The project commissioned 21 studies on a wide range of contextual issues, 12 of which are included in an ICTJ edited volume, Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies.
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Date published: 5/12/2017
Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies
Download PDFA new book by ICTJ examines the challenges of responding to massive human rights violations in different and difficult circumstances.
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Date published: 4/11/2017
Getting to Full Restitution: Guidelines for Court-Ordered Reparations in Cases Involving Sexual Violence Committed during Armed Conflict, Political Violence, or State Repression
Download PDFDefining court-ordered reparations for victims of sexual violence committed during armed conflict, political violence, or state repression is not an easy task. The challenges only increase when there are few domestic precedents for defining such reparations based on international human rights law or international humanitarian law.
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Date published: 3/27/2017
Victims Fighting Impunity Transitional Justice in the African Great Lakes Region
Download PDFIn many countries of the African Great Lakes region, state-led approaches to transitional justice have been created by wide-ranging agreements or policies that have been later forgotten or only partially implemented. Even when implemented, they are often subject to years of delay and/or contention.This has left civil society, including victims’ groups, to try to fill the gaps in responding to victims’ rights and needs, while simultaneously advocating for government to fulfill its obligations
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Date published: 3/20/2017
No Legacy for Transitional Justice Efforts Without Education
Download PDFEducation, as a critically important institution that is widely considered to be both formative and transformative, is something that transitional justice cannot afford to overlook. Transitional justice in its early years did not directly engage with education, but today this has changed. The field has moved from discursively recognizing the importance of education (though placing it beyond the ambit of transitional justice practice temporally and philosophically) to trying to find models for active engagement with it. Education can interact with transitional justice mechanisms in a number of ways. Its structural importance as a site of justice or injustice places it within the ranks of institutions with whose reform transitional justice is concerned (alongside security sector and judicial institutions, among others). In addition, education can be both a form and site of reparations for past harms to individuals and groups. However, this hardly exhausts the potential scope of the possible interactions between these two sectors.
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Date published: 3/15/2017
The Power of a Transitional Justice Approach to Education
Download PDFThis paper explores the power of a transitional justice approach to education reconstruction in post-conflict settings. Its central question is how the aims of transitional justice can guide educational reform processes after conflict or periods of massive human rights violations, with the final goal of helping to promote guarantees of nonrepetition. How does a transitional justice approach specifi cally contribute to peacebuilding through education?
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Date published: 2/23/2017
Assessing the Prospects for Transitional Justice in Georgia
Download PDFA new ICTJ report finds that the time is ripe for Georgia to take meaningful steps to reckon with the dark chapters of its recent past and ensure that abuses never happen again. The report warns that while political conditions in the country may not be perfect, waiting longer to acknowledge victims and deal with the past may lead to more abuses and a possible conflict in the long run.
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Date published: 12/8/2016
When No One Calls It Rape: Addressing Sexual Violence Against Men and Boys
Download PDFSexual violence against men and boys in times of conflict or repression is alarmingly common— and takes a markedly consistent form across contexts in terms of how it affects victims and societies as a human rights violation that is taboo to talk about. It has been committed in all cultures, geographic regions, and time periods. Today, while some of the silence surrounding the issue of sexual violence against women is being broken, unfortunately effective measures of justice and redress are still not understood or applied in ways that can support male victims.
