Category: Transitional Justice
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Agnes Wanjiru, the British armed forces and the language of silence
Elizabeth Brown In recent years, two prominent British public institutions – the Metropolitan Police and the armed forces – have faced significant criticism regarding their ability to protect women both in the community and within their own organisations. Both have faced a multitude of allegations of bullying, harassment, sexual assault, and inadequate investigatory procedures, within…
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The Shadow of Impunity: Justice for the killing of Baha Mousa and lessons for Afghanistan
Elizabeth Brown Twenty years ago, on 15 September 2003, a 26-year-old Iraqi man named Baha Mousa died following catastrophic mistreatment carried out by British soldiers in a detention facility in Basra. The incident spawned a complex web of accountability efforts, including a Royal Military Police investigation, a Court Martial, a judicial review case which ultimately…
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Frenki and Johnny were War Criminals… Just About, or The Last Judgement
By James Gow Almost unnoticed, the last international trial for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia was completed on 30 June 2021. The chief of the Serbian security service and his deputy were found guilty on five charges relating to just a single crime, while acquitting them of all other crimes charged. Bosanski Šamac was…
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The Mladić Appeal Verdict
Genocide and the Last Chance for Bosnian Reconciliation By James Gow The Appeals Chamber verdict in the trial of Ratko Mladić is the last chance to secure a guilty verdict of genocide for the events in 1992. Those events were widely labelled ‘genocide’ and actually spawned the creation of the Yugoslavia Tribunal. It has been…
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Peace versus Justice in Colombia
By Kerry-Luise Prior This article elaborates on the discussion around peace versus justice within the setting of the Colombian armed conflict. To begin with, it is important to look at the extent and the context of the conflict. The first section of the chapter lays out the scale of the conflict, in terms of numbers…