Transitional Justice

Using the Better Peace Tool’s four-part framework to realize inclusion in peace processes, the animation explores the various components of transitional justice and offers five practical steps to ensure a gender sensitive and inclusive process.

During ten years of civil war, from 1991 to 2002, the children of Sierra Leone were deliberately and routinely targeted, and witnessed widespread and systematic acts of violence and abuse.

This report examines how and to what extent transitional justice approaches have engaged children and considered their needs and perspectives, analyzing the experience of truth-seeking mechanisms, criminal justice, reparations, and institutional reform.

Transition and Justice An Introduction (1) Deterrence, Democracy and International Justice (1) Transitional Justice ongoing war Atashi (1) Participation in TJ – Nepal (1)    

Source: International Center for Transitional Justice GENEVA (PRWEB) June 18, 2014 Contextualized Approaches to Peace Processes Truth commissions can make important contributions to peace processes if all parties can agree on common objectives and there is […]

Countries emerging from long periods of authoritarian rule must often confront a legacy of gross human rights abuses perpetrated over many years.

On December the 10th 2013, fourth day of Celebration Week of Human Rights day (7-11 Dec 2013), Armanshahr Foundation and the Institut français d’Afghanistan (IFA) in Kabul jointly held a round table entitled “Custody policies and the respect for human rights: how to put an end to impunity?

The 79th (Year V) Goftegu public debate, a bridge between the elites and the citizens, of Armanshahr Foundation was held in cooperation with the French Institute Afghanistan and Physicians for Human Rights at the Institute’s amphitheatre on 21 July 2011 under the title of “In search of truth and justice, a study of half a century of crisis in Afghanistan” and to introduce to newly published books: ‘A Review of War Ruins’, and ‘A selection of Simorgh Stories’. The speakers were: Messers Stefan Schmidt (from Physicians for Human Rights), Alireza Rohani (Senior adviser at the AIHRC and Director of Law faculty Ibn Sina University), Rafigh Shaheer (Member of Parliament), Aziz Rafiee (Managing Director of Afghanistan Civil Society Forum.( About 60 human rights activists, students, academics and media representatives were present at the meeting.

The city of Herat hosted the 43rd public GOFTEGU debate of Armanshahr Foundation on 9 November 2009 to also mark the publication of the new book, A Guideline for Victims to the International Criminal Court. The meeting, as a part of the series of public debates as a “Bridge between the Elite and the Citizens”, was the fifth of its kind to be held in this city, where 60 participants from civil institutions, human rights and citizenry activists, students and intellectuals took part.

The 42nd round of Goftegu Public Debates held in Kabul on 5th November 2009, marked the release of a new Armanshahr publication, “A Guideline for Victims to the International Criminal Court”.
Ms. Shourangiz Dadashi, Ajmal Baluchzada and Sayed Jawad Darwazyan introduced the book to the audience.