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.

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

Over the past three decades, over 40 countries have established truth commissions (TCs) to investigate past patterns of gross human rights violations ...

This research project, funded by the Latin America Programme of the Norwegian Research Council, has had several objectives: First, the project ...

This study analyses the special institutions of restraint introduced in order to secure accountable government. Most African countries are equipped ...

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 ...