EXTERNAL SPHERES AND ACTORS
A memorialization initiative developed by the National Association of Relatives of Kidnapped, Detained and Disappeared of Peru, a local partner in GIJTR’s “Indigenous Communities and Transitional Justice” project, which offers solutions for how formal transitional justice processes can better collaborate with Indigenous mechanisms that regularly incorporate restoration and retributive justice dimensions. With its unique attention to violence prevention and its embrace of informal truth and justice initiatives, GIJTR demonstrates that the tools of transitional justice can be used outside of formal settings and, often, before political transitions begin or conflicts end, providing practitioners new methods and guidelines for supporting affected communities to quell violence and advance peace.
Through its work with GIJTR, Consortium partner the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala has become a pioneer in transitional justice, ensuring the families of the missing and disappeared are centered in forensics investigations worldwide. Other GIJTR Consortium partners are also located in the Global South, including Indonesia and South Africa. By amplifying the experiences and expertise of communities in the Global South, GIJTR shifts the traditional power dynamics around who creates knowledge on behalf of whom, correcting a major weakness and significant historic oversight in the transitional justice field, which for decades has been criticized for promoting exclusively Western approaches to transitional justice processes in contexts around the world. By catalyzing and amplifying expertise in the Global South, GIJTR supports a robust new cohort of diverse practitioners and scholars who can inform the wider field based on their own learned and lived experiences.
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From the Ground Up GIJTR’s Impact: External Spheres and Actors
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