This is the first volume to overview the complex Romanian transitional justice effort by accessing secret archives and investigating court trials of former Communist perpetrators, lustration, compensation and rehabilitation, property restitution, the truth commission, the rewriting of history books, and unofficial truth projects.
She will discuss the progress to date as well as the challenges facing transitional justice efforts in Guatemala.
After the 2013 conviction of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide was overturned, many observers feared that transitional justice efforts in Guatemala would peeter out.
Playwrights responding to human rights violations or to transitional justice efforts often point to unresolved issues in excess of institutional mechanisms of social redress.
While the ex-king should be allowed to play a role in such a transitional government, every effort must be made to keep his old corrupt cronies from infiltrating the new government.
The conference will explore the Commission's activities and provide a forum for discussion with researchers and students who are studying questions related to human rights, transitional justice, and efforts to document and preserve evidence of human rights abuses.
In conflict and transitional contexts, additional efforts are required to build trust in public services and reinforce community institutions, rather than undermining them.
Its signature program, called Ready, Willing and Able, is a transitional housing and employment effort that the organization says has helped some 4,000 people attain greater independence and self-sufficiency.
There has been a long-running process in Geneva for negotiating an end to the war and forming a transitional government in an effort to put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Egyptian prosecutors filed charges against both men last month, part of an effort by the transitional government to show that it is stamping out the corruption associated with the former government.
