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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

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

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

Author:: Patrick Pierce and Caitlin Reiger
Publication Date:: 07-2014
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Abstract:: This report asserts that dealing with past abuses in Myanmar is essential to achieving genuine progress on peacebuilding and economic development in the country. Conflict and high levels of political repression have racked Myanmar for more than half a century. Both President Thein Sein and opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi have highlighted rule of law and good governance as priorities for Myanmar alongside the development of a modern market economy and democracy. This report provides concrete recommendations to development and reform actors on how to incorporate transitional justice into their programmatic tools.
Topic:: Reform, Transitional Justice, Criminal Justice, Institutions, and Reparations
Political Geography:: Southeast Asia and Myanmar

Author:: Sharanjeet Parmar and Guy Mushiata
Publication Date:: 02-2013
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Abstract:: Following field research in late 2009 and a 2010 workshop in Kinshasa, ICTJ produced a report in French on the challenges of enforcing court-ordered reparations. This briefing paper outlines and summarizes the challenges and recommendations discussed in the report. It also proposes additional steps that the government, international community, victims and civil society organizations can take to address the failure of the DRC to fulfill outstanding orders for reparations, as well as broader measures that can be implemented, including non-judicial reparations measures. (French)
Topic:: Civil Society, Transitional Justice, Reparations, Victims, and Human Rights Violations
Political Geography:: Africa and Democratic Republic of Congo

Author:: Cristian Correa
Publication Date:: 06-2013
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
Abstract:: This report evaluates the government of Peru’s partial results in providing compensation to victims of the internal armed conflict that devastated the country from 1980 to 2000. It provides a detailed analysis of the process of implementing the Comprehensive Reparations Plan, established on the basis of recommendations made by the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (2003). The report also reflects on the relationship between development policies and reparations in considering investment projects undertaken to date as part of the Collective Reparations Program.
Topic:: Development, Transitional Justice, Investment, Reparations, and Armed Conflict
Political Geography:: South America and Peru

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