Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Resistance and Remembrance Local Solutions Have Global Impact In 2014, ICSC founded the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation (GIJTR), which has revolutionized transitional justice by advocating for locally driven, victim-centered approaches to truth and justice processes in post-conflict settings in a field that had become prescriptive and largely internationally implemented. Drawing on ICSC’s holistic methodology, GIJTR knew that for sustainable change to occur, the experiences and expertise of local communities must be centered in laws, policies and practices related to transitional justice. In its first ten years GIJTR forged connections between local and global efforts – creating new platforms for diverse actors to collaborate, amplifying grassroots recommendations at the highest levels of government, and mainstreaming trauma-informed, psychosocial support in formal transitional justice processes. What follows are just a few examples of this transformational work.
Participants in a GIJTR 2023 roundtable on global racism visit the Valongo Wharf Archeological Site in Rio de Janerio, where more than 900,000 enslaved Africans are estimated to have entered the Americas.
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