Transforming Transitional Justice

This final report, Transforming Transitional Justice: A Decade of Change, Growth and Sustained Impact, highlights the many, often intersecting, ways that GIJTR revolutionizes traditional approaches to transitional justice through its flexible and context-specific lens—one that prioritizes the experiences and expertise of survivors and post-conflict communities by building their capacity to lead local and national initiatives that demand accountability, secure rights for all and foster more peaceful and just societies.

As evidenced in this report, GIJTR’s holistic, innovative methodology has a cascading and overlapping effect in terms of impacts. For instance, it reimagines and actualizes new approaches in the field of transitional justice at the same time that it forges meaningful engagements with a wide range of stakeholders. As a result, impacts in the report are often intertwined with detailed descriptions of GIJTR’s methodologies, project activities and insights from local partners. For clarity’s sake, the report opens with an Executive Summary that details selected key impacts before elucidating its extensive findings about GIJTR’s objectives, methodologies, audiences and impacts. A shorter publication, summarizing this full report, is also available below.

While GIJTR’s work is intentionally designed to meet the different needs of local settings, this report points to common impacts across GIJTR’s programs that have transformed the lives of tens of thousands affected by conflict worldwide as well as individuals and organizations seeking to support them. It is GIJTR’s hope that this report will assist practitioners, civil society organizations, policymakers, donors and others in the fields of transitional justice, peacebuilding and violence prevention in designing and supporting similar methodologies and mechanisms in the future.