“ When we were small, GIJTR stood with us. We are now 8-10 years working on transitional justice. At the start we did not know transitional justice. This process and training…has enabled us to be aware of transitional justice and how to support it. As a result, we have trained staff with expertise on forensics, database and data analysis as well as documentation. As a result of the project we are known and trusted. —GIJTR local partner, South Sudan ”
Capacity Building: South Sudan GIJTR’s capacity building in South Sudan is representative of what can be achieved even in challenging, insecure and low resource contexts. While the country’s political environment makes accountability for decades of violence unlikely in the short term, GIJTR works with CSOs to engage survivors in transitional justice purposes. As a local partner notes: “Truth telling, through body mapping and other arts, allows individuals to express their stories. This is what we want to see in my country. It also relates to documentation as it reminds people during story sharing to remember their loved ones who passed on as result of the violence in the country. Above all, it allows people to hope for a peaceful country in future...These are the things we always advocate for.” A GIJTR Consortium partner working on the project echoed these impacts, reporting that GIJTR’s capacity building in memorialization, advocacy, transitional justice, and psychosocial support has enabled the local partners to engage with a wide swath of the international community active in Juba in ways that would not have been possible before GIJTR’s partnership.
South Sudanese refugees in Uganda, 2014. Photo credit: EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED
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