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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WHO WE ARE

BOARD

Marcie Mersky

Chair

Marcie Mersky was born in the United States but for most of the past three decades has lived and worked in Latin America. Since the end of hostilities in Guatemala, she has been active in the efforts to bring sustainable peace to the country, working as a senior political officer of the United Nations Verification Mission and as a Coordinator of the Guatemala’s Historical Clarification Commission's final report. She was Director of the Guatemala Soros Foundation’s Access to Justice Program until 2007. She is currently working with the UN in New York assisting the newly established Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala. She is a member of the ICTJ Managing Truth Commissions Group, and serves on the boards of several other non-governmental organizations working on justice, development, and peace issues.

Erik Laan

Treasurer

Based in the Netherlands, Erik Laan has worked several years as a policy officer in the field of peace building and human rights in a number of countries, including Colombia, Guatemala, Cuba, Indonesia, Rwanda and the Middle East. He was managing director of a Netherlands based consultancy bureau, specialised in lobbying in The Hague and in Brussels. As a senior consultant he advised many cvil society organizations and networks active in international cooperation, on matters of public affairs. Actually he works as a management consultant specialised in the public sector in the Netherlands.

Brinton Lykes

Secretary

Brinton Lykes is Associate Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College as well as Associate Dean of the College. She has been professor of Psychology in the College’s Department of Counselling, Development and Educational Psychology since 1997. Her professional memberships include the American and the Interamerican Psychological Association and Latin American Studies Association. She has researched, spoken and published widely on issues relating to political violence, torture, gender and the psychological effects of both impunity and reparations. She has extensive experiene on participatory research and has produced manuals and training materials for participatory research purposes.