Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Resistance and Remembrance
Local Solutions Have Global Impact
The Making of Atrocities: Developing New Strategies to Defeat Racism Racism continues to exert an insidious hold on governments, communities and individuals around the world, causing immeasurable human suffering. As the roots of racism are often buried and its everyday manifestations suppressed, over the last two years the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth & Reconciliation (GIJTR) carried out a project to identify the ways in which racism can lead to mass human rights violations and atrocity crimes. Through its “ Understanding Racism as a Risk Factor in Atrocity Crimes ” project, GIJTR conducted case studies to examine the linkages between racism and atrocity crimes in five contexts – Brazil, Colombia, Namibia, South Africa and Sri Lanka. In December 2023, GIJTR held a three-day workshop in Rio de Janeiro that convened nearly fifty policy makers, civil society representatives, academics and survivors from 14 countries who work in the fields of transitional justice, peacebuilding and racial justice. They examined the findings of the case studies, compared them to their own experiences and work on racism in their home countries, and developed a set of
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In addition to panel discussions and keynotes, participants visited a local site in Rio de Janeiro connected to the transatlantic slave trade during the three-day roundtable.
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