This 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…
Nobody 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…
This 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…
The 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…
Following 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…
The 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…