The Global Learning Hub for Transitional Justice and Reconciliation is a network of organisations from Germany and across the world, initiated by the Berghof Foundation and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in early 2022. The Hub reflects a diversity of experiences, benefits from the respective strength of each partner and promotes their work.
We want to facilitate an inspiring space for dialogue and learning that is driven by solidarity, inclusivity and innovation. By building bridges, generating knowledge and amplifying voices the Hub seeks to advance the policy and practice of dealing with the past to strengthen peace and justice.
The team coordinates the collaboration between partners of the Hub, facilitates joint activities and networking, supports knowledge generation, and disseminates information about partner’s activities.
The Partners
Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) is a regional human rights organisation working to increase the capacity of local and national organisations in the fight against impunity. They contribute to building cultures based on accountability, justice and willingness to learn from the root causes of mass human rights violations in the Asia-Pacific region — with work focusing in countries attempting to build a stable democratic base following prolonged conflict or authoritarian rule.
The Berghof Foundation is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organisation supporting people in conflict in their efforts to achieve sustainable peace through conflict transformation and peacebuilding. Berghof brings 50 years of experience in combining practice, learning and research to support inclusive dealing with the past processes as well as access to their network of local partners and research institutions around the world to the Hub.
The Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany is tasked under German public law with the comprehensive investigation of the causes, history and impact of the dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone in Germany, the German Democratic Republic and East-Central Europe. It promotes the reappraisal of the former Communist dictatorships in Germany and other countries and advances public awareness at an international level.
Established in South Africa in 1989, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) is a multi-disciplinary institute that seeks to understand and prevent violence, heal its effects and build sustainable peace. Through their research, advocacy and psychosocial support work, and in collaboration with communities affected by violence, CSVR seeks to enhance state accountability, promote gender equality and build social cohesion, integration and active citizenship.
Dejusticia is a Colombia-based research and advocacy organization dedicated to the strengthening of the rule of law and the promotion of social justice and human rights in Colombia and the Global South. They promote positive social change by producing rigorous studies and fact-based policy proposals, carrying out effective advocacy campaigns or litigating in the most impactful forums, and designing and delivering education and capacity-building programs.
The mission of the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ Foundation) is to keep the memory of the National Socialist persecution alive by supporting survivors and their descendants, working with young people, launching educational initiatives, and campaigning for equal dignity and equal rights. Against the background of its founding history, the EVZ Foundation is particularly active in Central and Eastern Europe, Israel and Germany.
The Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt) is an association of governmental organisations, church development agencies, civil society networks, and political foundations. They work at the interface between peacebuilding and development, and politics and practice and aim to collectively contribute to shaping agendas and political processes in peacebuilding and development. Transitional justice has been part of this endeavour for the past 20 years which FriEnt likes to bring to the Hub.
Impunity Watch is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to uprooting deeply ingrained structures of impunity, delivering redress for victims and survivors of grave human rights violations, and promoting justice and peace.
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) is a regional network of non-governmental organisations with programmes in Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. Since its foundation in 2003, they have been fighting for truth, justice, accountability, equality, freedom, democracy, and peace in former Yugoslav countries. To sensitise young people to the region’s difficult past, YIHR engages in regional dialogues, youth education and civic activism.
