ABOUT THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR JUSTICE, TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION Equipping Communities to Drive Change The Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation was founded in 2014 by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC), after ICSC members—which include over 370 historic sites, museums and memory initiatives in 80 countries— expressed the need for transformative and locally driven truth, justice and reconciliation efforts to support national transitional justice processes in post-conflict settings. As a Consortium composed of nine global organizations, including ICSC, GIJTR encompasses a range of expertise across multiple domains and disciplines, including truth-telling and memorialization, documentation of rights violations, rule of law and legal interventions, mental health and psychosocial support, forensic anthropology and community-led activism. These varied skills enable GIJTR to develop holistic, flexible interventions in response to local needs articulated in any context, even the most volatile, as post-conflict settings often are. GIJTR benefits from a multi-year funding structure as opposed to conventional time-limited program-based funding. This allows GIJTR to develop the long-term, multi-phase programs that best suits local capacity building and trust-building as well as sustainability. These malleable programmatic and funding approaches enable GIJTR to reimagine transitional justice through a locally driven framework rather than the conventional approach, which relied almost exclusively upon state-driven initiatives and international experts. This new approach allows a more holistic intervention that bolsters
International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Founded in 1999, ICSC is a global network of sites devoted to connecting past struggles to their contemporary legacies. Its membership encompasses well-known sites like Ellis Island in New York City to burgeoning memory initiatives in more volatile countries from Ukraine to Yemen. One of the key advantages of having ICSC as a founding partner is that it equips GIJTR with a cadre of trusted local partners around the world, with whom ICSC already has deep relations.
GIJTR Partners
From its onset GIJTR was designed to be geographically and programmatically diverse, encompassing the following organizations: • The American Bar Association Rule of Law, United States of America • Asia Justice and Rights, Indonesia • Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa • Documentation Center of Cambodia • Due Process of Law Foundation, United States of America • Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala • Humanitarian Law Center, Serbia • The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, United States of America • Public International Law and Policy Group, United States of America
the capacity of local civil society partners and survivors to work alongside state actors to build more equitable and peaceful futures.
A NOTE ON TERMS: In this Summary, GIJTR Consortium partners refer to the nine core organizations that help facilitate all GIJTR programs. Local civil society partners, or local partners, refer to community organizations that operate within a particular context and with whom GIJTR partners to facilitate individual projects.
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About the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation
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