
How do societies seek to come to terms with legacies of large-scale abuses in order to ensure accountability, serve justice and achieve reconciliation? And what role can victims play in this process? These are crucial questions for scholars and practitioners of transitional justice (TJ).
TJ practitioners and scholars alike have increasingly been turning to victim-centric, participatory approaches to increase the legitimacy and “efficacy” of TJ processes.
By giving victims centre stage, stakeholders hope to better address victims’ needs, enhance local ownership and transform victims into agents of change who can carry forth processes of justice seeking after international actors leave.
But what do we really know about how to best organize this victim participation, or what its long-term effects are?
This website brings you the results of, amongst other things, an ERC-funded research project (VictPart 804154) that examines this question.
‘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 […]
Read MoreOn 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 […]
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreThis month, we launched the Justice Visions podcast. Follow us on Spotify or Apple Music.
Read MoreTine 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.
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