http://tj-forum.org/ ~ ~ resources and multi-disciplinary discussion on the challenges of justice during transitions to a better world. Join us!]]> en-us 2007-07-09T15:34:31-05:00 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 http://tj-forum.org/archives/001993.html Janet Anderson of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting published a well researched piece recently on issues surrounding the ICC's indictments of five leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda. (She even quoted something that our... ICC Helena 2006-06-20T14:34:18-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/001992.html In the Washington Post of June 18, a British historian called Antony Beevor had an article in which he described the pacto de olvido-- that is, the pact of 'forgetting' about the violent acts committed during Spain's years of civil... Truth-seeking and truth-establishment Helena 2006-06-19T21:24:49-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/001960.html Apologies to any readers who may have tried to submit comments to recent posts but found themselves unable to. Our software was temporarily out of order. It has now been fixed. We are also trying to install a simple visual-recognition... TJF administration Helena 2006-06-03T11:24:49-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/001955.html In December 2004, the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army came within a hair of negotiating a permanent ceasefire before talks collapsed. Ever since then, the government has been testing out new sticks and carrots in an attempt to... Uganda Jonathan Edelstein 2006-06-02T16:21:12-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/001924.html Those who are concerned about the potential for conflict between international justice and peacemaking may have reason to worry about the developing turf battle between the Ugandan government and the International Criminal Court. Uganda is in the 19th year of... ICC Jonathan Edelstein 2006-05-19T16:05:21-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/001921.html Timothy William Waters, who formerly worked in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, had a timely opinion piece in the New York Times last week. (Also, here.) It had the thought-provoking title, Why... Former Yugoslavia Helena 2006-05-18T23:04:09-05:00 http://tj-forum.org/archives/001919.html I'm sorry this blog has been a bit dormant recently. I guess I was hoping that others who had agreed to contribute to it might pick up some of the slack in the times when I'm unavoidably busy elsewhere... As... TJF administration Helena 2006-05-18T21:26:33-05:00