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Henry, a teenaged rebel solider, before he is disarmed in 2001. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images

22 juin 2023

Sierra Leone has been at peace for 20 years after a brutal civil war - what went right

Christina Mammone, Flinders University

Transitional justice contributed greatly to the peace which Sierra Leone has experienced in the last two decades.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, documents the lynchings of more than 4,400 people between 1877 and 1950. AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz

24 juin 2020

To fight US racism, research prescribes a nationwide healing process

Benjamin Appel, Michigan State University et Cyanne E. Loyle, Penn State

Research into how war-torn and fractured nations find justice and societal reconciliation finds ways to establish sustainable and lasting peace in divided societies.

Police protect a judicial complex where former FARC rebel leader Seuxis Hernandez was standing trial on May 20, 2019. The former peace negotiator has been arrested on drug charges and is now fighting extradition to the United States. AP Photo/Ivan Valencia

4 juin 2019

Violence climbs in Colombia as president chips away at landmark peace deal with FARC guerrillas

Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón, International Institute of Social Studies

Colombia’s new president opposes the 2016 peace deal with the FARC guerrillas. As trust between the government and militants erodes, at least 1,700 former insurgents have returned to armed struggle.

In this October 1998 photo, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu dance after Tutu handed over the final report of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Pretoria. (AP Photo/Zoe Selsky)

23 janvier 2019

Do truth and reconciliation commissions heal divided nations?

Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University

Wherever there is an ugly, unresolved injustice pulling at the fabric of a society, there is an opportunity to haul it out in public and deal with it through a truth commission.

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