Find resources on transitional justice, dealing with the past and reconciliation
Our publications
- Conference report on the 2025 practitioners' conference "Transformative Transitional Justice in Practice: Confronting Challenges, Recognising Successes"
- Research papers on the social and economic impacts on women who search for the forcibly disappeared, including case studies on Colombia, Indonesia and Timor-Leste, and Iraq, as well as a summary of key findings
- The Power of We: How collective processes allow healing after mass atrocity – Reflections from the field
- Policy brief and research papers on Chile, South Africa, South Korea and Lithuania about far-right memory politics
- Reflection paper about the 2023 practitioners' 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 (AJAR)
- 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 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