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When Camps Become Home: Legal implications of the long-term encampment in Zaatari

February, 2015 / By Geraldine Renaudiere

Over the past five years, Syria is going through an unprecedented internal crisis and a civil war generating extreme violence […]

January, 2015 / By Alejandro Castillejo

I want to begin with Julia´s history, an indigenous woman from the South of Colombia who currently lives in one

January, 2015 / By Ronald Niezen

Truth commissions can be seen, not only as venues for addressing the worst abuses of states in a search for

January, 2015 / By Gerhard Anders

There are fascinating parallels and connections between political trials and transitional justice. Both are seen to serve other ends than

January, 2015 / By Katrin Seidel

After South Sudan declared its independence from the Republic of the Sudan in 2011, one could read in the international

January, 2015 / By Leslie Dwyer

“It’s already the era of demokrasi, you know,” Pak Ketut says, nodding his head in firm approval, stretching out each

January, 2015 / By Nigel Eltringham

On the 31st December 2014, after twenty years of existence, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) finally ceased operations.

November, 2014 / By Jennifer Curtis

In the summer of 2008, Iris Robinson had a lot to say about homosexuality. On 6 June, in a radio

November, 2014 / By Gerhard Anders

The African continent has been at the forefront of experiments with transitional justice. There have been amnesties, truth commissions, criminal

At the entrance of a mid-sized, freshly renovated office building stands a security check-up point. Manned with three guards and