Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Resistance and Remembrance
Local Solutions Have Global Impact
GIJTR’s Impact on Policy A range of organizations working globally on transitional justice have adopted practices piloted and proven effective through GIJTR’s decade of programming, incorporating lessons into their own work and materials, ultimately having a positive effect on policy as well. The innovative practice of integrating mental health and psychosocial support services, or MHPSS, into transitional justice, modeled
by GIJTR Consortium partner CSVR, has had particular positive impact, most notably in the African Union’s decision to integrate MHPSS into its transitional justice policy. Further, the United Nations Secretary General’s 2023 guidance note on transitional justice makes a pointed reference to the importance of MHPSS in transitional justice, drawing on a 2021 report on transitional justice, mental health and
psychosocial support referencing GIJTR’s work in The Gambia. Other recent references to GIJTR in global practice include: •
United Nations Development Programme and UN Women’s 2022 guidance on “ Women’s Meaningful Participation in Transitional Justice ”, to which ICSC staff contributed through interviews on the work of GIJTR and transitional justice broadly, references several GIJTR publications; • The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have used material concerning Syria produced by GIJTR’s “Transitional Justice and Migration” project; and • The UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non Recurrence attended a GIJTR convening, where the issue of state financing of reparations was raised by participants. As a result, the Special Rapporteur is now developing a report on this issue.
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