The Power and Politics of Transitional Justice
One of the overarching ideas this blog explores is the emerging trend of appealing to international criminal justice in (and in the wake of) conflict situations. The fact that “we no longer consider...
View ArticlePeace Through ‘Good Enough’ Justice?
In his article ‘Why Developing Countries Prove so Resistant to the Rule of Law’, Barry Weingast notes that transplanting institutions and policies directly from developed societies into developing ones...
View ArticleA Little Less Isolated and a Lot More Troubling: Ban Ki-moon Meets Bashir
Attempts to isolate and marginalize Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir have been mixed at best. The man many people believe is ultimately responsible for the violence and misery of Darfur – and who has...
View ArticleThe Two Rabbits of International Trade
SEOUL – If you chase two rabbits at once, the old saying goes, both will escape. And yet this is precisely what many governments are required to do: pursue both growth and distributional fairness. The...
View ArticleMediation Perspectives: Innovative Approaches in the Colombian Peace Process
The Colombian peace process has advanced steadily without major interruption since it was formally launched in Norway and peace talks between the Colombian government and the Colombian Revolutionary...
View ArticleRwanda: How to Deal with a Million Genocide Suspects
This article was originally published by The Conversation on 7 April, 2015. Twenty-one years ago – on April 7, 1994 – the genocide that would kill up to one million people in Rwanda began. Another...
View ArticleGuatemala Prosecutes a President, but Progress Falters
This article was originally published by OpenSecurity on 29 April, 2015. Barring hurricanes, landslides and the occasional drug trafficking story, Guatemala doesn’t often reach our newspapers or TV...
View Article‘Parrhesia’: the Radical Destruction of Impunity
This article was originally published by OpenSecurity on 26 May 2015 as part of the “States of Impunity” series. Impunity is not simply a juridical, technical problem, or some sort of loophole in the...
View ArticleHas Egypt’s Judiciary Become the New Theatre of the Absurd?
This article was originally published by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) on 7 July 2015. The recent death sentence passed down on former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, along with 106...
View ArticleStriking the Right Balance: Truth at the Heart of Transitional Justice in...
This article was originally published by Justice in Conflict on 25 September, 2015. Republished with permission. It wasn’t long ago that the peace process between the FARC and the Colombian government...
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