TRANSFORMING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
In contrast, GIJTR is defined by a commitment to context-informed, locally driven, non-prescriptive and victim-centered approaches. GIJTR is uniquely equipped to build deep relationships with local parters due to its agile funding mechanism, its multidisciplinary skillset and ICSC’s global network of trusted members, who are embedded in their communities and often survivors themselves. prescriptive. It was defined by a precedent of perceived past successes and funded as time-limited, fixed-term projects. Further, those goals and methodologies were often determined by external actors rather than by affected communities and survivors. GIJTR launched at a time when transitional justice practice had become increasingly internationally led and
An image from a social media campaign to support GIJTR’s 2021 “Reintegration and Transitional Justice Project”, which focused on the experiences and biopsychosocial impacts of conflict and sexual violence on women, girls and children born of war. The social media campaign reached over 160,000 people.
GIJTR programs engage not only with the symptoms of violence and injustice, but also address their root causes. They do this by elevating the impact of both formal and informal processes through partnerships with communities, who understand these underlying causes best and are therefore crucial drivers of lasting social change and catalysts for justice.
Since its founding, GIJTR has:
Supported over 500 community driven projects
Produced over 50 publications and policy papers
Partnered with over 800 civil society organizations
Collected over 8000 narratives of human rights violation
Worked with people from 80 countries
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Transforming Transitional Justice: A Decade of Change, Growth & Sustained Impact—A Summary Report
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