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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PUBLICATIONS

Violence against Women in Conflict

14/09/2009 - Impunity Watch launches a new briefing paper on the position of international law on violence committed against women in conflict. This paper, prepared by intern Sanne Weber, introduces a developing Impunity Watch Perspectives project that aims to help reduce impunity for such crimes.

This project, to be launched in Central America in 2010, and extended in subsequent years to the former Yugoslav states and African Great Lakes region, is designed to empower civil society activists in countries around the world to help reduce impunity for sexual violence committed against women during conflict. It seeks to do so by researching and analysing the root causes, nature and consequences of such crimes, encouraging the constructive engagement of state and non-state stakeholders, including vulnerable and excluded women, in transitional justice policy-making and the international exchange of experiences, and strengthening civil society networks in their lobbying and advocacy in this regard.

Click here to read the briefing paper, and for more information on the Perspectives programme, contact Marlies Stappers.

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