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31. From Principles to Practice: Challenges of Implementing Reparations for Massive Violations in Colombia

Author:
Cristian Correa
Publication Date:
10-2015
Content Type:
Special Report
Institution:
The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Abstract:
This report examines Colombia’s Victims and Land Restitution Law (2011), which provides comprehensive reparations to conflict victims and restitution to victims of forced displacement who rely on land for their livelihoods – and assesses the challenges of implementing the law under current conditions, which include widespread poverty and ongoing violence. The government has allocated an estimated USD $29 billion to pay for the program, but some question whether it is enough. Complexities in the law also make it difficult to translate principles into action. The report suggests that a more modest approach to providing reparations on a massive scale may be preferable to overselling an effort that continues to leave many victims waiting.
Topic:
Poverty, Displacement, Reparations, Human Rights Violations, and Forced Migration
Political Geography:
Colombia and South America

32. Education and Transitional Justice: Opportunities and Challenges for Peacebuilding

Author:
Lucía Ramírez-Bolívar and Roger Duthie
Publication Date:
11-2015
Content Type:
Special Report
Institution:
The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Abstract:
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. Drawing on comparative experiences from around the world, it looks at how formal and informal education can help facilitate the work of transitional justice measures and vice versa.
Topic:
Education, Reform, Institutions, Reparations, Peacebuilding, Truth and Reconciliation, and Youth Engagement
Political Geography:
Global Focus

33. Opening Up Remedies in Myanmar

Author:
Aileen Thomson
Publication Date:
12-2015
Content Type:
Policy Brief
Institution:
The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Abstract:
This briefing paper calls on the soon-to-be-established NLD-led Burmese government to seriously consider taking steps to deal with Myanmar’s troubled past as a way to help end the cycle of violence and human rights violations in the conflict-torn country. It points to practical steps that the government and civil society groups could take to address the past, including truth telling and providing reparations to victims, and dispels many common misunderstandings about transitional justice, that it only amounts to revenge and criminal trials. It argues that providing remedies for past violations would clearly demonstrate that the government stands on the side of the victims, not of the abusers.
Topic:
Reform, Institutions, Reparations, and Truth and Reconciliation
Political Geography:
Southeast Asia and Myanmar