Report on Impunity Watch Panel Discussion

Transitional justice: are we ticking the boxes when we should be joining the dots?

Café Dudok, The Hague, 15 December 2009

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Report on Impunity Watch Expert Debate

1 July 2009, Amsterdam: Remembering the Srebrenica and Rwanda genocides: Do war memorials unite or divide?
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Dealing with Impunity in Serbia - Options and Obstacles

Now available in English, this document provides a summary of a research project conducted over the past two years in Serbia, examining the root causes and nature of impunity for crimes committed by the Serbian state and citizens during the wars of Yugoslavia's dissolution during the 1990s.
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Recognising the Past: Challenges in the Combat of Impunity in Guatemala

Now available in English, this document provides a summary of a research project conducted over the past two years in Guatemala, examining the root causes and nature of impunity for crimes committed during its long civil war.
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The Persistence of Truth

This report looks at progress in truth-seeking and the combat of impunity in Guatemala ten years after its UN-backed truth comission, the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH), published its findings on the events of the internal armed confrontation of 1960-96.
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Impunity Watch Research Instrument

This Impunity Watch tool offers a basic framework for researching the state of accountability in post-conflict societies.
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NEWS ARCHIVE

Regional Initiative for the establishment of the Regional Commission for Truth-seeking and Truth-telling about War Crimes committed in former Yugoslavia (RECOM)

30/09/2008 - Since May 2006 three nongovernmental organisations from the Balkans region – Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) from Serbia, Research and Documentation Center from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Documenta from Croatia have conducted a broad regional civil society consultation process on truth-telling and truth-seeking mechanisms about war crimes in a regional context.

Within the scope of this process, they have initiated the establishment of the Regional Commission for Truth-seeking and Truth-telling about War Crimes (RECOM), discussed conditions for its establishment, obstacles and support strategies and its possible mandate as well as the need for and potential to create additional initiatives. Many other organizations from the region have joined the initiative and it was therefore agreed that in a regional forum scheduled for late October 2008 in Priština (Kosovo) the Regional Coalition for establishing the RECOM will be officially formed.

The Regional Coalition for the establishment of the RECOM will be a network of nongovernmental organizations, associations and individuals, united with a view to advocate and to take the initiative for the establishment of the RECOM.

RECOM is envisaged as a regional, independent, impartial, official body with a mandate to establish and publicly present facts on war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia. It is to be established on the basis of a common agreement between the governments of Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and Slovenia, with the support of the United Nations and the European Union.

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