In Orwell’s novel 1984 we encounter the instrumentalization of language to influence our thinking, the notion of “newspeak” as a hybrid tool to control the minds of a population. Cognitive dissonance ...

Transitional Justice was a term that was plied by Western governments and international human rights organisations on Nepal, and it was a good thing. After experimentation in South Africa, Colombia, ...

BULAWAYO - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi hearing process, launched in July 2024 as the Gukurahundi Community ...

Despite the fact that displacement is often a result of civil war and government repression, diasporas have received comparatively little attention from transitional justice scholars. In particular, ...

Boston College Associate Professor of English and Irish Studies James Smith, one of the book's editors and contributors. (Caitlin Cunningham) The Center for Irish Programs will co-host the American ...

The initiatives for reunification and reconciliation in Libya cannot be viewed as isolated social efforts detached from their ...

Feminist Africa, No. 10 (August 2008), pp. 31-48 (18 pages) Attafuah, Kenneth Ageyemang. 2005. “An Overview of Ghana’s National Reconciliation Commission and its Relationship with the Courts”, in ...

(New York) – The Nepali government’s bill to amend its current transitional justice law marks some progress toward accountability but will not fully provide justice to victims or meet Nepal’s ...

September 15, 2006 — The epithet “transitional” is an indicator of a type of governance that moves a solid totalitarian system by diplomacy and power interests’ pressure to redress the system of ...

The halt of the military assault against Palestinians in Gaza and the release of all living Israeli hostages and several detained Palestinians offer a glimmer of hope amid devastation and suffering, ...

Dear Right Honourable Prime Minister, We are writing with regard to Nepal’s transitional justice process on behalf of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of ...

Syria on Saturday announced the formation of a national commission for missing persons and another for transitional justice, more than five months after the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.