Truth Commissions are increasingly being used as one mechanism in a broader strategy to consolidate democratic governance following a period ...

The Norwegian government has appointed a committee that will evaluate Norway’s engagement in Afghanistan. The main objective is to review and draw lessons from the operation. Senior researchers Astri Suhrke and Torunn Wimpelmann at CMI will be part of the Commission.

On 17 October 1992, as a consultant to the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador, I visited the village of Corinto to collect stories of ‘grave ...

The Danish Africa Commission recommends a refocused agenda for international development cooperation with Africa. Lars Engberg-Pedersen discusses the main recommendations from the report, then a panel with Kjell Harald Dalen from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry and researchers from CMI debates new directions in the development cooperation with Africa.

The implementation record of truth commissions’ recommendations in Latin America Elin Skaar The Glob

The report studies three human rights commissions in Southeast Asia in light of the so-called Paris Principles. These principles are the authoritative ...

M. Cherif Bassiouni an international United Nations war crimes expert, often called "The Godfather of International Criminal Law". Professor Bassiouni has served in numerous United Nations positions, including Chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Libya (2011) and UN Commission on Human Rights for Afghanistan (2004-06).

The U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre´s call for more EU action to curb corruption in non-EU partner countries hit a European nerve.

The US military strike that devastated the MSF hospital in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan on 3 October generated profound, if short-lived, outrage in much of the world. The US government promised an investigation, and in late October appointed a military panel to do so. Yet its investigation is unlikely to address the more fundamental questions this attack raises: Why have US-airstrikes repeatedly produced catastrophic cases of “collateral damage” in Afghanistan?

Truth commissions are an integral component of transitional justice, that is, formal and informal mechanisms set up by the state or civil society ...

Anti-corruption Commissions (ACCs) have, with one or two exceptions, been a disappointment both to the people of developing countries and to ...

The 2007 general elections in Kenya were fiercely disputed and triggered widespread violence throughout the country. After former UN Secretary-General, ...

This evaluation of Finnish development research was commissioned by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA), which supports (a) research ...

Truth and reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC deliver? ed. Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo van d

Over the last few years, Angolan legislation on elections and the Angolan national election commission has been strengthened considerably. ...

The 2007 general elections in Kenya were fiercely disputed and triggered widespread violence throughout the country. After the former UN Secretary-General, ...

CMI has received funding for one new project on Latin American democratisation and peace processes and one project on abortion rights lawfare.

Entering the third decade of multiparty democracy on the African continent, incumbents appear able to secure electoral mandates without opening ...

Anita Ferrara, Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions: The Chilean Truth and Reconcilia

This report focuses on one particular institution which may mitigate the centralisation of power in Angola and pave the way for political reform ...