Category: Transitional Justice
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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…
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Context matters! TJ ‘mosaics’ not blueprints
The ICTJ have published a new volume discussing the importance of context in Transitional Justice implementation: Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies. The book is wide-ranging and is the culmination of a multi-year project, including a series of workshops in New York in 2014. The book stresses the importance of understanding…