PublicationsResearchTransitional JusticeAdvocating Transitional Justice in Africa: The Role of Civil SocietyThis edited volume examines the role of local civil society in shaping understandings and processes of transitional justice in Africa – a nursery of transitional justice ideas for well over two decades. It brings together practitioners and scholars with intimate knowledge of these processes to evaluate the agendas and strategies of local civil society, and offers an opportunity to reflect… Read More Hugo van der Merwe and Jasmina BrankovicSeptember 19, 2018
ArticlesMediaTransitional JusticeWinnie Fought the Good Fight and, in the Process, She Lost HerselfNobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other. - Carlos Castaneda There is nothing that makes one pause like death, I don't know what it is about the face of death that drives one to take time to appraise life. I learnt of… Read More Thembisile MasondoSeptember 19, 2018
PolicyPublicationsTransitional JusticeThe State of Transitional Justice in Africa: Between Wide Application and Deep ContestationThis lecture, delivered by Commissioner Solomon Dersso of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, at the 2017 African Transitional Justice Forum, provides an appraisal of the state of transitional justice in Africa and a critical reflection on the Africanization of the discourse around and practice of transitional justice on the continent. Read More CSVRDecember 14, 2017
ArticlesMediaOur News and EventsTransitional JusticePress Release: The African Union and CSVR Host the First Continental Forum on Transitional JusticeThe African Union Commission Department of Political Affairs (AUC-DPA) and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) jointly hosted the first Continental Forum on Transitional Justice (TJ) in Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa under the theme The State of Transitional Justice in Africa, from 19-21 October 2017. The Forum brought together African Union Member States, members of… Read More CSVROctober 24, 2017
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, Reconciliation, Transitional JusticeTunisia: The Colonial Legacy and Transitional JusticeFollowing the 2011 Revolution ending over five decades of dictatorship, Tunisia embarked on a comprehensive transitional justice process to investigate a broad range of state violations against its citizens, including false imprisonment, torture, assassination as well as social marginalisation and economic exclusion. This report discusses how colonial rule politically, economically, and socially transformed the country in ways that would shape… Read More CSVROctober 24, 2017
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Peacebuilding, Restorative Justice, Transitional JusticeBenchmarking the Role of African Youth in Transitional Justice ProcessesThe increasing role of African youth in political transformations and conflicts in the African continent is inevitably linked to the demographic reality that Africa is a continent of the Youth. This increasing role is also attributable to the capacity of mass mobilisation through new technology of information and communication, notably social media. This report examines approaches for including young people… Read More CSVROctober 24, 2017
