http://tj-forum.org/ ~ ~ resources and multi-disciplinary discussion on the challenges of justice during transitions to a better world. Join us!]]> en-us 2010-03-01T14:13:05-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/003899.html In early February, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I declined to confirm the charges against Bahr Abu Garda, commander of a group that broke away from the Justice and Equality Movement, in connection with the attack that killed 12 African Union... ICC Evelyne Schmid 2010-03-01T14:13:05-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/003628.html A few days ago, the new version of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Digital Collection on Truth Commissions went online, together with the completely redesigned USIP website. The Truth Commissions Digital Collection, part of the Margarita S.... Evelyne Schmid 2009-06-19T10:50:42-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/003577.html Late April 2009, the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched the new version of the Legal Tools , an international knowledge-transfer platform. The Legal Tools amount to an online library for international criminal and human rights law made freely available... ICC Evelyne Schmid 2009-05-27T06:34:57-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/003515.html Nepal's government fails to protect women human rights activists, says Amnesty International On April 10, Amnesty International (AI) launched an appeal and a short video calling upon the Nepalese government to protect women human rights activists. A year after... Nepal Evelyne Schmid 2009-04-16T12:36:37-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/003471.html Note: This is a submission from new TJF contributor Evelyne Schmid. The UN Security Council decided unanimously on February 26 to keep its peacekeeping mission in East Timor (UNMIT) for another 12 months, noting that the political and security situation... Timor Helena 2009-03-24T13:07:54-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/003395.html Note: This is a submission from new TJF contributor Evelyne Schmid, to whom I give much thanks. ~HC Northern Ireland: Controversy on “recognition payments” should not divert attention from the Consultative Group on the Past’s recommendation to establish a truth... N. Ireland Helena 2009-02-18T04:09:33-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/003394.html Note: This is a submission from new TJF contributor Evelyne Schmid. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia (TRC) uploaded the first volume of its final report to its website on January 24. Two other volumes are due to be... Truth-seeking and truth-establishment Helena 2009-02-18T04:01:06-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/002573.html Moses Chrispus Okello, who is head of the Research and Advocacy Dept. at Kampala's excellent Refugee Law Project, voiced some hard-hitting criticisms of the ICC in the presentation he gave at the international conference recently held in Nuremberg on the... Uganda Helena 2007-07-09T15:34:31-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/002572.html Concordis International, which is "a small British organisation working to help individuals and groups in conflict situations to seek out paths towards lasting peace", recently published (in PDF form) a 24-page account of a consultation they recently held on a... Sudan, including Darfur Helena 2007-07-09T14:16:19-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/002571.html I had an opinion piece in in last Thursday's Christian Science Monitor on the trial of Charles Taylor by the Special Court for Sierra Leone. (The article is also here.) This trial is being conducted not in the SCSL's own... Sierra Leone Helena 2007-07-09T12:14:29-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/002433.html Katherine McNamara, the editor of the online magazine Archipelago has now published the concluding chapter of my book Amnesty after Atrocity?: Healing Nations after Genocide and War Crimes on the web, with my permission and that of the publisher. So... Transitional justice principles Helena 2007-03-13T14:46:02-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/002429.html Transitional justice principles Helena 2007-03-12T10:25:35-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/002199.html Should the largely pauperized population of today's Iraq be held responsible for making 'reparation' payments to people and institutions in Kuwait and elsewhere that were damaged by Saddam Hussein's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait? Should the extremely poor population of... Reparations Helena 2006-10-27T16:27:01-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/002087.html Uganda Helena 2006-08-27T15:31:19-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/002020.html Liberia Helena 2006-07-16T09:38:35-05:00