PublicationsResearchGender-based Violence, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsAfrican Truth Commissions and Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual ViolenceWithin the international development and human rights communities, awareness of the use of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) as a tool of war has grown significantly over the past two decades. Truth commission have emerged as a key response to support victims of CRSV and provide recommendations on how the state should provide assistance and avoid future violations. This report draws… Read More Rachel MorleyJune 21, 2021
PolicyPublicationsAfrican Union, Transitional JusticeThe African Union Transitional Justice Policy: Expanding the Frontiers of Transitional JusticeThe African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJP), adopted in 2019, is the culmination of a nearly decade-long legislative process. It endows the African Union with a full-fledged justice architecture in combination with its human rights architecture and the Malabo Protocol on the criminal jurisdiction of the African Court. This policy brief provides a summary of the salient elements of the… Read More Solomon DerssoMay 31, 2021
PolicyPublicationsAfrican Union, Transitional JusticeTransitional Justice in Africa: What's Human Rights Got to Do with It?The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has the potential to play a significant role in the development of holistic transitional justice approaches by providing a framework for states based on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and related regional human rights instruments. This policy brief presents ways in which the African Commission’s 2019 Study on Transitional… Read More Elsabé BoshoffMay 31, 2021
PolicyPublicationsPeacebuilding, Transitional JusticeAfrocentric Conceptions of Conflict Transformation: Beyond Ubuntu Mythology and Romantic TraditionalismPeacebuilding is an overtly political act laden with sociocultural assumptions, preferences and values. It is also an act impelled by the geoeconomic and geopolitical considerations of both the protagonists and some “invisible hands” with a stake in the ongoing conflict. In essence, the process of defining African peacebuilding and its socioeconomic value is both revolutionary and futuristic in pointing to… Read More Brian KagoroMay 31, 2021
PolicyPublicationsAfrican Union, Amnesty, Transitional JusticeThe Status of Amnesty Provisions in Situations of Transition Under the African CharterThis policy paper presents a review of the analysis of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the legal validity of amnesty provisions under the African Charter. It examines how the obiter dictum of the Commission in Thomas Kwoyelo v. Uganda advances its jurisprudence on amnesty and the parameters the Commission has set for evaluating amnesty provisions. Read More Solomon DerssoMay 31, 2021
PolicyPublicationsResearchAfrican Union, Peacebuilding, Transitional JusticeLocating Peace within the Justice Agenda: The Case of the African Union Transitional Justice PolicyThis paper discusses the African Union Transitional Justice Policy as a case study that locates peace within the justice agenda in Africa, drawing from the rich, three-decade-long practice and experience of transitional justice processes on the continent to guide and inform future processes. It discusses the parameters set by the policy within which peace and justice processes can co-exist and… Read More CSVRMay 21, 2021
