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Aid to transitional justice

This project is a study of the foreign aid that was channelled to transitional justice processes in Rwanda and Guatemala from 1995 to 2005. Goals of the study were:

(1) To collect and analyse statistical data on donor funding of transitional justice mechanisms in the two countries during the 11-year period in question;

(2) To assess how the transitional justice assistance was followed up and the extent to which the different actors in the field complemented one another; and

(3) To develop recommendations, in particular regarding sustainability and complementarity of mechanisms.

 

Publications

Foreign aid to transitional justice: The cases of Rwanda and Guatemala, 1995-2005
Petersen, Stina S., Ingrid Samset, and Vibeke Wang (2009)
in Kai Ambos, Judith Large, and Marieke Wierda (Eds.): Building a future on peace and justice: Studies in transitional justice, conflict resolution and development. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer pp 439-467

Maintaining the Process? Aid to Transitional Justice in Rwanda and Guatemala, 1995-2005
Samset, Ingrid, Stina S. Petersen, Vibeke Wang (2007)
Bonn: Working Group on Development and Peace (FriEnt) 42 p.

Presentations

Maintaining the Process? Aid to Transitional Justice in Rwanda and Guatemala, 1995-2005
Samset, Ingrid, Stina S. Petersen, Vibeke Wang (2007)
Presented at: the workshop "Looking back and moving forward: The nexus between justice and development" in Nuremberg, Germany, 26 June 2007

Maintaining the Process? Aid to Transitional Justice in Rwanda and Guatemala, 1995-2005
Samset, Ingrid, Stina S. Petersen, Vibeke Wang (2007)
Presented at: the ICTJ-DFID meeting "Donor Strategies for Transitional Justice" in London, 15-16 October 2007

Foreign Aid to Transitional Justice: The Cases of Rwanda and Guatemala, 1995-2005
Samset, Ingrid, Stina S. Petersen, Vibeke Wang (2007)
Presented at: the workshop "Transitional Justice Mechanisms and the Role of Donors" at the NFU conference at CMI, 5-7 November 2007

Rights, Democracy and Development
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A Way Out of Violent Conflict?The Impact of Transitional Justice Mechanisms on Peacebuilding

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