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Publications, Research, Climate Change, Public Participation, Reparations, Transitional Justice, Truth Commissions

Transformative Transitional Justice And Climate Action: Nurturing Synergies For Climate Justice

In the face of rapidly escalating but unevenly distributed harms, global climate governance is struggling to prevent catastrophic warming while addressing growing demands for climate justice. This paper proposes transformative transitional justice as a lens through which to identify two…

Jasmina Brankovic and Samuel Sontag

05 Jun 2026

Publications, Research, Climate Change, Public Participation, Transitional Justice

Local Transitional Justice Practices For Climate Justice: The Case Of Nkhulambe, Malawi

This report applies a transformative transitional justice lens to the numerous climate actions designed and implemented by residents of Nkhulambe, a community in Malawi heavily affected by climate change. Typically used to deal with gross human rights abuses, transitional justice…

Jasmina Brankovic

27 Apr 2026

Publications, Research, Climate Change, climate justice, Public Participation, Reparations, Transitional Justice, Truth Commissions

Transformative Transitional Justice For Climate Justice: Lessons From Practice

In 2025, two South African communities created the first explicitly transitional justice process for climate harms. Emphasising the experiences and solutions of residents directly affected by climate change, the process was also novel in using a transformative approach to transitional…

Jasmina Brankovic

13 Feb 2026

Policy, Publications, Climate Change, climate justice, Public Participation

Active Public Participation: The Key To Effective Climate Action At The Municipal Level

The people most affected by climate change are the ones who best understand the problems they face. They see solutions that experts living outside their communities might not – what will work, what will not, and why. At the municipal…

Jasmina Brankovic

26 Nov 2025

Publications, Research, Transitional Justice

Polarisation: The 'hyper-problem' Transitional Justice Can No Longer Ignore

As a 'hyper-problem' that makes political and social challenges harder to resolve, polarisation is both a barrier to addressing a violative past and a leading indicator of future risks of conflict and violence. Polarisation can decrease social cohesion, contribute to…

Jasmina Brankovic

04 Aug 2025

Policy, Publications, Research, African Union, Civil Society, Public Participation, Transitional Justice, Victim Awareness

Mainstreaming Popular Participation In Transitional Justice: Lessons From Multilateral, State And Civil Society Actors In The Gambia And Somalia

Statements on the need for popular participation are increasingly common in international and national transitional justice policy and literature, yet little guidance is available on how to put participation into practice. Based on empirical research in The Gambia and Somalia…

Jasmina Brankovic and Simon Robins

25 Feb 2025

Author: Jasmina Brankovic

Transformative Transitional Justice And Climate Action: Nurturing Synergies For Climate Justice

Local Transitional Justice Practices For Climate Justice: The Case Of Nkhulambe, Malawi

Transformative Transitional Justice For Climate Justice: Lessons From Practice

Active Public Participation: The Key To Effective Climate Action At The Municipal Level

Polarisation: The 'hyper-problem' Transitional Justice Can No Longer Ignore

Mainstreaming Popular Participation In Transitional Justice: Lessons From Multilateral, State And Civil Society Actors In The Gambia And Somalia

Video: Rethinking Climate Justice

When Yes is Not Free – Power Coercion and Consent in South Africa

Rights on Paper, Inequality in Practice: South Africa's 30 Years of Unfinished Constitutional Promise

In the Shadow of Femicide: The Unseen Trauma of Families in Search of Healing and Justice

Transformative Transitional Justice and Climate Action: Nurturing Synergies for Climate Justice

Promoting Transitional Justice and Accountability in Africa

Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations – Report of the Ninth African Transitional Justice Forum – FRENCH

Local Transitional Justice Practices for Climate Justice: The Case of Nkhulambe, Malawi

The State of Transitional Justice in Africa Volume 3 The Role of Civil Society – PORTUGUESE

The State of Transitional Justice in Africa Volume 3 The Role of Civil Society – FRENCH

The State of Transitional Justice in Africa Volume 3 The Role of Civil Society – ARABIC

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