‘One Pair of Shoes, One Life’: Steps towards Accountability for Genocide in Srebrenica

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On 15 July each year, Women in Black, an antimilitarist and feminist organization based in Belgrade, organize or participate in events in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to mark the anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica. In 2010, in [...]

Lost in Translation? Civil Society, Faith-Based Organizations and the Negotiation of International Norms

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The impact of civil society on transitional justice is complex in part because civil society is composed of a multitude of actors, faith-based and secular, whose preferences for accountability and truth reflect their varying interests and [...]



Overcoming Historical Injustices: Land Reconciliation in South Africa, James L. Gibson. * Land, Memory, Reconstruction, and Justice: Perspectives on Land Claims in South Africa, ed. Cherryl Walker, Anna Bohlin, Ruth Hall and Thembela Kepe.

A New ‘Normal’: Political Complicity, Exclusionary Violence and the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations during the Argentine Dirty War

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The military regime that controlled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 sought to radically depoliticize Argentine society through a violent campaign of social exclusion. Although this campaign required the active participation of the country’s [...]

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‘But We Also Support Monitoring’: INGO Monitoring and Donor Support to Gacaca Justice in Rwanda

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The article focuses on the interplay between donors and international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) with regards to monitoring of the gacaca courts in Rwanda. While both donors and INGOs agreed that monitoring had a positive outcome [...]

Editorial Note

The Archive in the Witness: Documentation in Settings of Chronic Insecurity

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Through an exchange between members of community-based organizations that document human rights violations in northwest Colombia and northern Uganda, this article examines multiple strategies of memory making in which an individual or a [...]

Reconciliation, Justice and Mobilization of War Victims in Afghanistan

This article traces the early stages of civil society mobilization for transitional justice and recent efforts to establish a network of war victims in Afghanistan. Specifically, it focuses on the development of the Transitional Justice Coordination [...]

Local Memory Practices in East Timor: Disrupting Transitional Justice Narratives

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Transitional justice discourse is underpinned by an assumption that trials and truth commissions will assist individuals and societies to ‘come to terms’ with, and move on from, complex legacies of violence. This article [...]