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

IW Serbia Launches Study of Justice Operators

04/11/2008 - Impunity Watch, the OSCE Mission in Serbia and the Fund for an Open Society in Serbia presented a new study on November 4, examining the perceptions of individuals working in Serbian institutions engaged in the suppression of impunity for war crimes committed during the 1990s.

The qualitative survey, based on in-depth interviews with 54 ‘justice operators’, was conducted by the research agency, Argument.

The presentation of results was followed by an expert debate on results of the study and future steps. Participants of the debate were representatives of the justice operators who were subject of the research, IW’s partners, the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM), the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), the Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia (HCS, and relevant international organisations.

Representatives of the judiciary welcomed the report, with War Crimes Chamber President Sinisa Vazic and Vice President of the Judges Association Omer Hadziomerovic describing its ‘insiders’ picture’ of the issues justice operators face in dealing with impunity as particularly valuable, making it the most useful study so far conducted in this area.

The debate concluded with a call for follow-up research, study and debate in this area within the next 12 months.

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