PolicyPublicationsAfrican Union, Amnesty, Capacity Building, Children and Youth, Climate Change, Criminal Justice, Gender-based Violence, Memory and Memorialisation, Transitional Justice, Violence PreventionAFRICAN UNION TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE: SOUTH SUDANThe policy brief discusses the ongoing challenges in South Sudan following conflicts in 2013 and 2016, highlighting severe human rights violations and a humanitarian crisis. It emphasizes the importance of implementing the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) and the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJP) to establish transitional justice mechanisms aimed at accountability,… Read More Christopher GitariApril 25, 2025
PolicyPublicationsAfrican Union, Amnesty, Capacity Building, Children and Youth, Civil Society, Climate Change, Corporate Accountability, Criminal Justice, Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Gender-based Violence, Gun Violence, Prosecutions and PardonsAFRICAN UNION TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE: ETHIOPIAThe policy brief outlines Ethiopia's complex history of conflict and human rights abuses, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive transitional justice (TJ) policy, which was initiated in 2022 under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's administration. Despite the signing of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in 2022, ongoing violence in regions like Amhara and Oromia complicates the TJ process. The policy brief… Read More Markos Debebe BelayApril 25, 2025
ArticlesClimate JusticeMediaClimate Change, Transitional JusticeTransformative Transitional Justice: How Old Tools Could Open New Avenues for Climate JusticeApril 2024 was the eleventh consecutive month to break heat records. With that news, the world is faced with the reality that global surface temperatures have already surpassed, even if temporarily, 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels – the benchmark agreed on in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Yet, the international climate negotiations continue to stall and the progress made so far… Read More Jasmina Brankovic and Augustine NjamnshiMay 29, 2024
Climate JusticePublicationsResearchCivil Society, Climate Change, Public Participation, Transitional Justice, Victim AwarenessTransitional and Climate Justice: New Opportunities for Justice in TransitionIn this editorial, Senior Research Specialist Jasmina Brankovic draws on her scholarly work on transitional justice and climate change as well as her practitioner experiences with the ‘unfinished business’ of South Africa’s political transition to propose that the intersection between transitional justice and climate justice – particularly the transformative turn in both – presents new opportunities for imagining and enacting… Read More Jasmina BrankovicJuly 7, 2023
PolicyPublicationsAfrican Union, Climate Change, Inequalities, Peacebuilding, PolicingENVIRONMENT IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE PRACTICE IN AFRICAIn the face of the unrelenting climate change crisis, environmental destruction, crimes, and abuse that amount to ecocide, the quest for an ecologically just existence has become more urgent in Africa, a continent long ravaged by conflict. The undeniable vulnerability of the human condition, ecosystems, and their biodiversity invites us to reflect on how, after the guns have been silenced,… Read More Munini MutukuJune 6, 2023
ArticlesClimate Change, Inequalities, Urban SafetyLoad Shedding is a Human Rights ViolationAs we wrap up Human Rights Month and its activities promoting respect for fundamental human rights and restoring human dignity in line with the Bill of Rights, the sad reality is that our government is violating those very same rights every time there is load shedding. Human Rights Day urges South African citizens to remember the struggles and sacrifices made… Read More Gugu NonjingeMarch 31, 2023
