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Published in: openSecurityThe collapse of Transitional Justice
The acquittal of two Croatian generals by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia undermines...
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Published in: openSecurityIsrael Palestine and the end of the two-state road
The peace process has become the number one enemy of a just and lasting solution.
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Published in: Shine A Light'Sending people back to be killed': Today's London to Colombo flight of failed refugees
Mass expulsions from Britain to Sri Lanka of 'failed' asylum seekers are increasing in frequency despite public controversy.
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Published in: openSecurityFrom periphery to centre: Israel's legitimacy, Palestine's UN bid, and the ICC
Palestine's newly accorded observer status at the UN General Assembly is only the latest move in an ambitious gamble...
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Published in: openSecurityFrom transitional justice mechanism to monumental revenge: the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal sinks to new lows
The Bangladeshi International War Crimes Tribunal quickly became a stage for political interference and...
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Published in: openSecurityFor the sake of justice, the ICC must reject Libya's admissibility challenge
The new regime in Libya claims the capacity and the will to see those who perpetrated atrocities under the old...
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Published in: HomeTruth and Reconciliation: a new political subjectivity for post-Yugoslavs?
'Truth and Reconciliation' is a paradigm entrapped within the limits of the existing state’s institutional...
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Published in: HomeSri Lanka, many shades of accountability
A long-awaited review on the conduct of United Nations agencies during the last stages of the war in Sri Lanka is...
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Published in: openSecurityPakistan’s disappearing Hindus
The political system works against minorities in Pakistan, dovetailing wealth, power, and sectarianism. While...
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Published in: openSecuritySri Lanka's policy towards witnesses is revenge, not reconciliation
Dr Niron knows the Sri Lankan army targeted hospitals in 2009. Every time he passed their location on to the...
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Published in: openSecurityRemembering July 1983: 'The holocaust started for me with the death of my father'
Amongst memories of the cataclysmic violence that spread across Sri Lanka and which still marks this time of year as...
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Published in: openSecurityPutting sexualised violence on the map in Syria
The New York-based Women’s Media Center’s Women Under Siege Project has been using modern technology, from e-mail to...
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Published in: HomeSrebrenica in 2012: carving out the space to remember
This week, a funeral for five hundred genocide victims marked the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in...
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Published in: HomeThe International Criminal Court and the Arab World
The ICC’s recent adventures in the Middle East and North Africa have furthered criticisms about its biased political...
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Published in: openSecurityReconciliation and the destruction of the past in divided societies
Ongoing controversies in two of the quintessential cases of divided societies - Northern Ireland and the Former...
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Published in: openSecurityMasters of manipulation: how the Kenyan government is paving the way for non-cooperation with the ICC
A policy of non-cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) will leave the victims of 2007/8...
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Published in: openSecurityCommunal violence and justice in India
Ten years on from the Gujurat riots, the survivors still do not have justice and the bureaucracies that made them...
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Published in: openSecurityNation-building in Sri Lanka: the potential and the promise
This week is the third anniversary of the end the Sri Lankan civil war. Yet there is hope: it lies within Sri...
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Published in: openSecurityProxy-War Responsibility and the ‘Taylor Doctrine’
The most important of the secondary effects of the guilty verdict against Charles Taylor will be the notion that...
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Published in: openSecurityPurposeful inquiry: detoxing the poisoned chalice
Derry/Londonderry is the UK City of Culture in 2013. In a place where names can be rigid markers of enmity, what...