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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLimited justice for Syria on the horizonAs the long and tumultuous Syrian civil war grinds on, the cascade of death, displacement and physical destruction...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAttacks on Tunisia’s transitional justice process threaten women’s advancementContinued attacks on the transitional justice process in Tunisia will weaken the gains made by women, and prevent an...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe 2016 transition into peace in Colombia2016 will probably be considered a lesson for the history of peace negotiations. We edited in an eBook a selection...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia’s struggle against corruption: time to fight, not forgiveA new economic reconciliation law protects clientelist structures in Tunisia and replaces the process of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTunisia: transitional justice in the crosshairsA proposed 'economic reconciliation' law will provide impunity for corruption and economic crimes, threatening the...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat role for a truth commission in Colombia?While a positive step in negotiations between warring parties, what are the limits of uncovering the dark truths of...
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Published in: openSecurityAziz’s notebook: transmitting the memory of violenceA granddaughter discovers her grandfather's notebook years after the political massacres that stole her mother and...
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Published in: openSecurityThe wounds of Baghdad's FrankensteinAhmed al-Sa'dawi's novel, rather than reconciling the complexities of violence in Iraq, seeks to exorcise the demons...
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Published in: openSecurityEl Salvador’s gang truce: a lost opportunity?The truce declared in 2012 may have been imperfect and controversial but positive lessons must be learned amid the...
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Published in: openSecuritySearching for justice: the Tokyo Women’s TribunalJustice for sexual crimes in wartime still remains elusive for many survivors, but it's never too late. From States...
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Published in: openSecurityFrom punishment to acknowledgment: tribunals of opinion in contexts of impunityCivil society tribunals, though unofficial, provide new spaces that fundamentally contest the state and its hold...
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Published in: openSecurityStates of impunityopenSecurity's new series explores how the violence of state crimes endures. How and when does the fight against...
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Published in: openSecurityOverlooked and invisible: the women of enforced disappearancesThe overwhelming majority of the victims of enforced disappearances are men. What happens to the women left behind?
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Published in: openSecurityMilitary immunity: Colombia's moment of choiceWill Colombia force its military to face up to its past human rights abuses?
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Published in: openSecurityDominic Ongwen and the slow-grinding wheels of the International Criminal CourtHe may not be a household name but his eventual trial at the ICC may highlight the long-forgotten victims of the...
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Published in: openSecurityEthnicised justice and dealing with the past in ex-YugoslaviaThere was much hope in the international community that the Hague war-crimes tribunal on former Yugoslavia, allied...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Africa’s parliament and the politicisation of the policeThe police were a symbol of the old, apartheid South Africa. Unfortunately they are becoming a symbol of the ‘new...
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Published in: openSecurityCivilian justice trumps military impunity in MyanmarThe rare conviction of a soldier in civilian court shows how, case by case, the criminal justice system is slowly...
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Published in: openSecurity“There was so much fear”The outworking of the eight-year-old peace agreement in Nepal has embraced the government and its Maoist opponents....
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Published in: openSecurityThe arrest of Cristian Labbé breathes new life into Chile's human rights struggleNew charges indict one of the most ensconced figures on the Chilean right, and a symbol of the enduring impunity for...
