Special Features

ICTJ | In Focus: Algerian Women Speak of Their Search for the Disappeared

March 11, 2016

In Focus

“Only Truth Could Heal This Pain”: Algerian Women Speak of Their Search for the Disappeared

For more than two decades, some 40 women have been protesting every Wednesday against government inaction on the disappeared in front of Algeria’s official human rights commission. They stand on the sidewalk holding photos of their disappeared relatives — their children, fathers, and husbands — breaking the silence at a dangerous time in Algeria.

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Other News

Without Addressing Women’s Security, We Can’t Hope for Equality

On International Women’s Day, ICTJ Gender Justice Senior Associate Amrita Kapur highlights how insecurity affects women and is key to overcoming inequality across all dimensions of empowerment. “Without including institutional reform, we are condemning women to another century of inequality,” she writes in this op-ed.

Earlier this month, the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and its partners opened a two-week photo exhibit at the American University of Beirut’s Jafet Library, featuring vivid and often deeply personal photographs submitted for its “The War As I See It” youth photo contest. Students, professors, experts, and journalists packed into the library space lined with the 26 photographs in oversized frames.

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Publications

More Than Words: Apologies as a Form of Reparation

This report explores many of the issues and challenges likely to be faced by those considering a public apology as a form of reparation for victims of serious human rights violations.

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Education and Transitional Justice: Opportunities and Challenges for Peacebuilding

This report, part of a joint research project by ICTJ and UNICEF on the intersections of education, transitional justice, and peacebuilding, explores how a transitional justice framework can help to identify educational deficits relating to the logic of past conflict and/or repression and inform the reconstruction of the education sector.

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Upcoming Events

March 09, 2016

Special Oxford Panel: “Who’s Calling the Shots in International Criminal Justice”

Location: Oxford, England

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April 22, 2016

Facing a Violent Past: Dealing with History and Memory in Conflict Resolution

Location: Arlington, VA

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IPSI: The Hague 2016

March 4, 2016

The Hague, The Netherlands

July 9 – July 30, 2016

At the 2016 The Hague Symposium, in cooperation with Clingendael Institute, you will grapple with the “wicked questions” around post-conflict transitions and international justice that continue to challenge policymakers, scholars, and practitioners. By learning about available mechanisms, options, and theories, you will gain a cross-sectoral perspective and a new way of thinking about why some transitions succeed where others fail.

In an intense and academically rigorous three weeks of interactive lecture, discussion, and experiential education led by the field’s foremost political leaders, scholars, practitioners, and advocates, you will contextualize the issues that drive these wicked questions, discover ways to make sense of the complexities of post-conflict transitions, and anticipate appropriate means for breaking the cycles of violence and vengeance so that those who have been victimized by human rights violations find justice. You will gain a deeper understanding of the concepts, controversies, and institutions surrounding the implementation of post-conflict strategies, including security, justice, political, and social mechanisms. You will examine which elements have contributed to success and which to failure, as well as gain a thorough understanding of the interplay between dynamics that can and cannot be controlled in a given scenario.

All participants will receive a Post-Graduate Certificate in “Post-Conflict Transitions & International Justice” upon completion of the course. Participants who choose to undertake additional rigorous assignments will have the opportunity to earn a Post-Graduate Certificate in “Post-Conflict Transitions & International Justice with Distinction.”

For more information, please see:

http://ipsinstitute.org/the-hague-2016/

Impunity Watch

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ICTJ | In Focus: Algerian Women Speak of Their Search for the Disappeared

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