Perspectives on Transitional Justice
There is a wealth of literature and information about transitional justice to explore. If transitional justice is new to you, we are providing a selected library of resources to help you become more familiar with the subject. Have your own perspective to share? Please email us.
Articles, Op-Eds, Publications
- Transitional Justice in the 21st Century: History, Effectiveness, and Challenges, appearing in the Oxford Handbook of Atrocity Crimes, 2019
- Quo Vadis: Where Does the Human Rights Movement Go from Here, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, October 2, 2018
- Redressing Jim Crow, LinkedIn Pulse, July 18, 2018
- Reckoning with Racial Injustice: 2017 Emillo Mignone Lecture, International Center for Transitional Justice, November 27, 2017 (video)
- Addressing Our Tortured History, One Monument At A Time, The Huffington Post, June 22, 2017
- African Americans and Police: To Repair Broken Trust There Must Be a Reckoning First, The Huffington Post, April 7, 2017
- This national reckoning is overdue, The Hill, June 17, 2020
- A Balancing Act: The Right to Peace and Justice, Harvard International Law Journal, January 2020
- Just Repair, Cornell International Law Journal, March 2015
- Truth with Consequences: Justice and Reparations in Post-Truth Commission Peru, Human Rights Quarterly, December 2008
- Some lawmakers are calling for truth commissions on racial violence. How do these work?, The Washington Post, June 9, 2020
- Human Rights versus National Interests: Shifting US Public Attitudes on the International Criminal Court, International Studies Quarterly 63(4): 1065–1078.
- Maryland has created a truth commission on lynchings – can it deliver?, The Conversation, June 14, 2019
- Designing truth: Facilitating perpetrator testimony at truth commissions, Journal of Human Rights 18(1): 92-110.
- Racial Transition, Washington University Law Review, February 2021
- Affirmative Action as Transitional Justice, Wisconsin Law Review, July 2020
- Does Transitional Justice Belong in the United States?, Just Security, July 2020
- The pressures of getting it right: Expertise and victims’ voices in the work of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), International Journal of Transitional Justice, June 2020
News
- How the long fight for slavery reparations is slowly being won, The Guardian, October 6, 2020
- D.C. slaveholders once won reparations. Now, the city eyes payment for descendants of enslaved people., Washington Post, October 6, 2020
- Williamsburg activists call for racial healing, reparations, WTKR, October 3, 2020
- California task force will consider paying reparations for slavery, Los Angeles Times, September 30, 2020
- The trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the ships that did not make it, The New York Times, September 19, 2020
- Maryland Episcopal diocese commits $1 million toward reparations for slavery, racial injustice, The Baltimore Sun, September 15, 2020
- Mandela’s lawyer, anti-apartheid activist George Bizos dies, AP News, September 9, 2020
- Led by a 105-year-old survivor, lawsuit seeks reparations in 1921 Tulsa race massacre, CNN, September 2, 2020
- Lebanon tribunal judge: No evidence of involvement by Hezbollah leadership in Hariri's killing, Reuters, August 18, 2020
- Lebanon Tribunal postpones verdict in Hariri case to August 18, Reuters, August 5, 2020
- Australia's First Truth Commission: Transitional Justice to Face Colonial Legacies, JusticeInfo.net, July 30, 2020
- Judge orders preliminary injunction against Oakland police over crowd control policy, KTVU FOX 2, July 29, 2020
- How The Asheville City Council Approved Reparations For Black Residents, ELLE, July 29, 2020
- Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee saluted with screening at Jewish film festival, San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2020
- In historic move, North Carolina city approves reparations for Black residents, USA Today, July 15, 2020
- Lloyd's of London to pay for 'shameful' Atlantic slave trade role, Reuters, June 18, 2020
- Rep. Barbara Lee wants to form a racial healing commission to reckon with 400 years of systemic racism, Berkeleyside, June 9, 2020
- Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom, Smithsonian Magazine, September 2016
- From South Africa, Lessons in 'Soft Vengeance', NPR, November 25, 2011