Justice for Victims in Transitional Societies

In October 2021, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia issued a Call for Contributions from relevant stakeholders with respect to the ECCC’s Residual Functions Related to Victims. The Call for Contributions asked for the provision of “… explanations for and recommendations on possible undertakings appropriate to and meaningful for victims encompassed in the jurisdiction […]

On 8 Septemer, Sangeetha Yogendran, PhD Research Fellow with the Justice Visions team, presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the European Society of Crimonology, which took place online from 8 to 10 September. In the Transitional Justice Panel “Individuals, groups and organizations: Who are the players & who needs what?”, Sangeetha presented preliminary findings […]

Justice Visions colleague Marit de Haan participated in a class about transitional justice at the School of Psychology of the Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile on Friday the 15th of October 2021. During the class with bachelor students of the course ‘Psychology and Human Rights’ she presented her project about the victims of the Chilean military […]

Much has been written about the potential of participatory approaches to entrench and expand transitional justice processes. Yet, evidence-based research on how to understand, organize and evaluate victim participation has lagged behind. Empirical research, moreover, often lacks an explicit conceptualization of participation or adopts existing models that start from an institutional perspective and that normatively […]

‘Using restorative justice to rethink the temporality of transition in Chile’ Questions about when transitions are over prompted the writing of this article. The Chilean transition towards democracy seems to be characterized by ongoing dynamics, illustrated by a recent protest movement, a push to reform the constitution and continuous truth and justice efforts. How can […]

On the 29th of December 2020, twenty-four years after the signing of the Peace Accords, Gretel Mejía, Ph.D. researcher of the Justice Visions team at the Human Rights Centre, submitted an amicus curiae brief before the Guatemalan Constitutional Court on the international standards on reparations and victims’ rights. The amicus brief, available in Spanish, was […]

On November 18th at 17:00 (CET) Gretel Mejía, PhD Research Fellow of Justice Visions, will be doing an interview about her research project on Voces de Mujeres, a feminist radio show based in Guatemala City.

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Tine Destrooper, coordinator of the Justice Visions project, will join the Young Academy of Flanders on March 20, 2020. The Young Academy formulates views and opinions, organizes events on relevant topics and explicitly reaches out to the authorities and the public to assist, where possible, in tackling societal challenges.