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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

Publications, Research, Civil Society, Public Participation, Transitional Justice, Victim Awareness

Transitional Justice In The Gambia: Enabling Popular Participation

This research report examines the level of popular participation in The Gambia's transitional justice process to date and provides recommendations for ensuring more meaningful participation going forward. It begins with an overview of both formal and non-formal measures in The…

Fatou Baldeh and Lena Houma

21 Feb 2025

Publications, Research, Civil Society, Public Participation, Transitional Justice, Victim Awareness

Enabling Popular Participation In Transitional Justice In Somalia

Given the country's increasing stability, transitional justice has become an option for addressing the violence and gross human rights violations that have marked Somalia's history from the colonial period to the present. Experiences in other African countries over the past…

Farhia Mohamud

15 Jan 2025

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

Maximising Popular Participation In Transitional Justice In Africa: A Guidance Paper For Multilateral Actors

Multilateral actors are increasingly interested in supporting transitional justice processes that maximise popular participation, especially by victims/survivors of violence and communities most affected by human rights abuses. Looking at the African context, this guidance paper outlines practical strategies for multilateral…

Simon Robins and Jasmina Brankovic

11 Dec 2024

Publications, Research, Pre Democracy, Torture and State Violence

The State Of Torture Report

Torture in South Africa has a complex and troubling history rooted in colonial and apartheid practices, where torture was used frequently by state security forces to suppress dissent and control Black and marginalised communities. Despite legal reforms during the post-apartheid…

Sinqobile Makhathini, Amina Mwaikambo and Cathy-Ann Potgieter

28 Nov 2024

Research

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

Transitional Justice In The Gambia: Enabling Popular Participation

Enabling Popular Participation In Transitional Justice In Somalia

Maximising Popular Participation In Transitional Justice In Africa: A Guidance Paper For Multilateral Actors

The State Of Torture Report

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

Behind the Screen: How Digital Tools are Fuelling Gender-Based Violence

Mass Movements and Transitional Justice in Africa

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

Corporate Accountability and Transitional Justice in Africa

RENFORCEMENT DES CAPACITÉS CENTRÉ SUR LES JEUNES EN MATIÈRE DE SANTÉ MENTALE ET DE SOUTIEN PSYCHOSOCIAL ET LA POLITIQUE DE JUSTICE TRANSITIONNELLE DE L'UNION AFRICAINE : UN MANUEL DE FORMATION DESTINÉ AUX ORGANISATIONS DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CIVILE

YOUTH-CENTRED CAPACITY BUILDING ON MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT AND THE AFRICAN UNION TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE POLICY: A TRAINING MANUAL FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS

Technology and Transitional Justice in Africa – Portuguese

Technology and Transitional Justice in Africa – French

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