Transitional Justice Databases

  • International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals Case Law Database - The Case Law Database (“CLD”) is a gateway to the jurisprudence of the ICTR, ICTY, and IRMCT Appeals Chambers. It provides direct access to extracts of key judgements and decisions rendered by the ICTR, ICTY, and IRMCT Appeals Chambers since their inception, as well as to full-text versions of the corresponding appeal judgements and decisions. The CLD does not include confidential decisions and restatements of established case law.

  • Transitional Justice Research Collaborative - This database is meant for scholars and practitioners who wish to examine the causes and impacts of mechanisms that address human rights violations. Transitional Justice Research Collaborative presents data on three primary transitional justice mechanisms—human rights prosecutions, truth commissions, and amnesties—for 109 democratic transitions in 86 countries around the world, from 1970-2012.

 

Blogs on Transitional Justice

  • War Crimes Prosecution Watch - Established in 2005 in partnership with the Case Western Reserve University School of Law's Cox International Law Center, War Crimes Prosecution Watch is a bi-weekly e-newsletter that collects official documents and articles from major news sources that detail and analyze salient issues pertaining to the investigation and prosecution of war crimes throughout the world. The publication, which goes out to over 15,000 subscribers, is edited by Case Western Reserve law students who are selected in January of their first year for editorial positions through an interview process. To date, the War Crimes Prosecution Watch team has published over 300 issues of War Crimes Prosecution Watch.

  • International Justice Tribune - With a worldwide network of correspondents, the blog covers on-going criminal proceedings on war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture, before the international and the national courts. Providing its readers with a global, comprehensive reporting and in-depth exploration of the fast-evolving world of international justice, IJT helps by providing context and perspective.

  • Justice in Conflict Blog - This blog is about two things: competing conceptions and ideas of justice as well as the challenges of pursuing justice in conflict.

  • Cambodia Tribunal Monitor - Cambodia Tribunal Monitor is a consortium of academic, philanthropic, and non-profit organizations committed to providing public access to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and open discussion throughout the judicial process.

NGOs and Centers Working on Transitional Justice

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.

Transitional Justice Tribunals