TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE ACADEMIES
In addition to country-specific projects, GIJTR facilitates a range of Transitional Justice Academies. These Academies embody a holistic and interdisciplinary approach, building the capacity of a core group of local experts, enabling them to serve as a resource for other practitioners and as individual specialists supporting regional transitional justice activities. Since its founding, GIJTR has conducted 10 Academies serving over 120 participants, creating new global cadres of capacitated, networked transitional justice advocates who are a resource for the contexts in which they work and the wider world. Academies provide training and financial support to cohorts of activists, academics, practitioners and non-traditional actors to increase their knowledge base of transitional justice tools. In addition, the Academies facilitate implementation of community transitional justice projects, supported financially and programmatically by GIJTR. Recent projects include: • an advocacy campaign for reparations to victims and victims’ families in Iraq;
• a comprehensive documentation initiative and digital archive of missing migrants in Tunisia; • documentation of enforced disappearances and corresponding public efforts in the Philippines that challenge historical distortion propagated by the ruling elite; and • the installation of memorial park benches to raise awareness, particularly among youth, about the missing and forcibly disappeared in Lebanon, where silence about past crimes and the absence of recognition of victims continues.
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Transforming Transitional Justice: A Decade of Change, Growth & Sustained Impact—A Summary Report
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