International center for transitional justice (ICTJ)

The International Center for Transitional Justice works for justice in countries that have endured massive human rights abuses under repression and in conflict through transitional justice mechanisms. The ICTJ works with victims, civil society groups, national, and international organizations to ensure redress for victims and to help prevent atrocities from happening again.

The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA)

CJA’s mission is to deter torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other severe human rights abuses around the world through innovative litigation, policy, and transitional justice strategies. CJA integrates innovative strategies to hold human rights abusers accountable. CJA pairs survivor-centered litigation with transitional justice projects, in which they work alongside in-country prosecutors to hold human rights abusers criminally accountable in national courts. CJA engages in policy advocacy to ensure that there are civil and criminal remedies to hold human rights criminals accountable around the globe.

United States Institute for Peace (USIP): Rule of Law Center

USIP’s Rule of Law Center has shaped the field of transitional justice through research that examines these issues in comparative perspective, publications, grant-funded work, and substantive policy advice. Examples of this work includes: providing assistance and advice to individuals, organizations, and governments working on transitional justice issues around the globe; and engaging in ongoing research, consultation, and workshops.

Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute

The Transitional Justice Institute, established in 2003, is a law-led interdisciplinary Research Institute at Ulster University. TJI is internationally recognised as a leading academic center in developing the field of transitional justice – broadly, the study of law in societies emerging from conflict and repression. TJI espouses an “active research” model, wherein engagement with institutions, policy-makers and communities (internationally and locally) generates research, and research generates engagement.