Find resources on transitional justice, dealing with the past and reconciliation

Our publications

• Reflection Paper (pracitioners' conference)
• Shaping the future: The power of youth as agents for living memory and justice (workshop insights)
• Overcoming exclusionary power structures and inequalities: Approaches to feminist transitional justice in practice (workshop insights)
• Against all odds: Transforming the role of “unpopular” victims (workshop insights)
• Voices for Transitional Justice (podcast)

Key national, regional and international documents

• German Interministerial Strategy to Support Dealing with the Past and Reconciliation (2019)
• Guidance Note of the Secretary General on Transitional Justice: A Strategic Tool for People, Prevention and Peace (2023)
• The EU’s Policy Framework on support to transitional justice (2015)
• AU Transitional Justice Policy (2019)
• The rule of law and transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict societies: Report of the Secretary-General (2004)

Key publications of partners

Asia Justice and Rights

• Twenty Lessons from Twenty Years of Transitional Justice in Asia
• Pathways to Transitional Justice in Indonesia: Victims’ Agency in the Face of Impunity

Berghof Foundation

• On Good Terms: Clarifying Reconciliation
• Transitional Justice and Reconciliation - Theory and Practice

Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung

• Event series on transitional justice
• International Conference on Dealing with the Past—Memory and Reconciliation after Regime Changes in the late 20th Century

Centre for Nonviolent Action (CNA)

• Online Handbook for Peacebuilding Trainings
• War of Memories: Places of suffering and remembrance of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)

• Revitalising African Traditional Justice Mechanisms: Report on the Fifth African Transitional Justice Forum
• Integrating Mental Health and Psychosocial Support into Transitional Justice in the Gambia: Practitioner Perspectives

Dejusticia

• Beyond the Binary: Securing Peace and Promoting Justice after Conflict
• Justicia transicional y la rendición de cuentas de actores económicos, desde abajo: desplegando la palanca de Arquímedes

Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ Foundation)

• MEMO study on the culture of remembrance in Germany
• The German Compensation Program for Forced Labor: Practice and Experiences

Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt)

• Transitional Justice & Dealing with the Past: Guidance Paper
• New Horizons: Linking Development Cooperation and Transitional Justice for Sustainable Peace

Impunity Watch

• Guidelines on Transformative Reparations for Survivors of Sexual Violence
• Youth Inclusion in Transitional Justice Policy in Africa