Researching #transitionaljustice on a grant from @GAC_Corporate. Team members based at @Kennedy_School, @HarvardChanSPH, @UofT, and internationally.
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We're excited to announce our new website: Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools, a global database of human rights prosecutions, amnesties, truth commissions, reparations, and vetting policies featuring analysis from our team. Check it out here: transitionaljusticedata.org/…
Nous sommes ravis d'annoncer le lancement de notre nouveau site web : Outils d'évaluation de la justice transitionnelle, une base de données mondiale. Jetez un coup d'œil ici : transitionaljusticedata.org/…
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Check out this piece by our Transitional Justice Fellow @tadessesimie about Ethiopia's draft TJ policy.
#Ethiopia’s draft #TransitionalJustice policy is potentially a major step forward in bringing peace.
But 10 key points must be considered before the policy is adopted, writes @tadessesimie for ISS Today. 🧵
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Abadir M. Ibrahim of @HumanRightsHLS argues that the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission cannot be trusted to carry out independent investigations or transitional justice processes surrounding the Tigray War.
hrp.law.harvard.edu/the-ethi…
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On Pod Save the World, @StateDept_GCJ speaks with @TVietor08 about pathways to achieving justice in Ukraine.
crooked.com/podcast/russian-…
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Our team members @kathryn_sikkink, @Doctor_Dancy, @developmentdata, and @MySoldatenko with @ukrpravda_news! See the English version of their article about lustration in Foreign Affairs.
pravda.com.ua/columns/2023/0…
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It's a wrap! Last week we hosted a conference with academics and policy practitioners to share our most recent research findings and discuss possibilities for future research. The conversation was enlightening and we are excited to see where it takes our team.
Our recent study of lustration policies found lustration has a positive association with liberal democracy––but fairness is critical to effectiveness. In @ForeignAffairs, we discuss how measured lustration can help Ukraine improve security and democracy.
foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/r…
In North America, activists call for the #UnitedStates and #Canada to stop violence against #Indigenous women and girls.
#NewsUpdate | ‘Crisis’: Calls Grow to Stem Violence Against Indigenous Women
Today marks Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day in the US, & Nat'l Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada.
via @AJEnglish
ictj.org/latest-news/%E2%80%…
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Former director of @amnestyusa William F. Schultz will be discussing his memoir with @CarrCenter on May 18th. Sign up to learn about Schultz's time confronting some of the world's greatest #HumanRights challenges from #Rwanda to #Bosnia.
There's still time to register for the book launch of "Reversing the Rivers: A Memoir of History Hope, and Human Rights":
🔸 William F. Schulz | @MeadvilleEdu
🔸 Mathias Risse | @Kennedy_School
🗓️ 05/18
⏰ 11:00am EDT
Register ➡️ bit.ly/3UtkJx4
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The governments of #Serbia and #Kosovo have agreed work together to find the hundreds of people still missing from the 1998-1999 war. More than 13,000 people were killed during the conflict and more than 1,621 remain unaccounted for.
bbc.com/news/world-europe-65…
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The Journal of International Criminal Justice calls for papers on the @IntlCrimCourt case concerning former Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) commander Dominic Ongwen.
academic.oup.com/jicj/pages/…
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In this new @apsrjournal
article, our @Doctor_Dancy and
@cjfariss use Google Trends data to show that human rights are most resonant in the Global South, finding little evidence that human rights discourse is becoming less popular worldwide.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Transitional justice depends on a holistic approach that seeks "the active participation of victims and civil society from the outset," says @UNDPPA.
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For @just_security, our Transitional Justice Fellow @marintencionado writes about how the U.S. and Colombia are reassessing their relationship in the wake of Colombia's truth commission report criticizing both nations' handling of the war on drugs.
justsecurity.org/84177/is-co…
Read about the TJET team's recent event on the Colombia Truth Commission featuring Daniel Marin-Lopez, @kathryn_sikkink, and @developmentdata and moderated by @che_shani here: scholar.harvard.edu/ksikkink…