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Justice in Syria. Portrait (drawing) of Nadim Houry, international lawyer.
Justice in Syria should be “a new social contract”
25 February 2025 by Franck Petit
Two months after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, director of the Arab Reform Initiative Nadim Houry explores the possibilities for transitional justice. In his view, “civil peace without justice is inconceivable today” [...]
Antoine Garapon, French magistrate and head of the Commission for Recognition and Reparation for sexual crimes committed in the Church, advocates restorative justice. illustration: portrait of Garapon. “Restorative justice is the very soul of justice”
11 February 2025 by Clémentine Méténier
Are restorative processes, like those in France dealing with Church abuse, the future in dealing with crimes that courts cannot judge? This is the plea made by French magistrate Antoine Garapon, who heads the Recognition and Repar [...]
Is the death of the ICC imminent? And what does the future hold for international law? Two renowned experts, Mark Freeman and Mark Drumbl, examine these two topical issues. Illustration: Drumbl and Freeman by Benoît Peyrucq. Thinking about the death of the ICC and what comes next
7 February 2025 by Thierry Cruvellier
Beyond the US sanctions, what led to the possible demise of the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Was the model and the supremacy of criminal law just misled from the start? And if the ICC falls off the cliff, what’s next? What’ [...]
Drawings of Azriel Bibliowicz and Ricardo Silva Romero, two Colombian writers. Writing about crimes you can’t forget
14 January 2025 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Two Colombian writers put language to horrors that could finally see justice this year in their country. The main characters of their novels are close relatives of victims – those for whom the crime continues long after it was com [...]
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Lucy Gaynor answers Thierry Cruvellier's questions in an in-depth interview about the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Illustration: Gaynor's portrait.
4 November 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier
How the UN tribunal for Rwanda shaped the genocide narrative On November 8, 1994, less than four months after the genocide in Rwanda, the United Nations created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Over the course of almost 30 years of trials, how has this court forged its [...]
Mark Freeman - Gangs and transitional justice. Illustration: portrait of Mark Freeman by Benoît Peyrucq.
20 September 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier
Does transitional justice have anything to say on gang violence? In several parts of the world today, it is not war or dictatorship that are the main source of mass violence. It is mafias, gangs, cartels, bandits and pirates; and their modes of crime and violence span from extortion to kidnappi [...]
Russell Tribunal (citizen's tribunal): interview with Guillaume Mouralis - Illustration: portrait of Guillaume Mouralis.
10 May 2024 by Clémentine Méténier
Guillaume Mouralis: “law and justice can be powerful tools of emancipation” When international justice is lacking, citizens’ tribunals appear as a means of kick-starting justice when the will of States is not there. The historic model of the Russell Tribunal in 1967 established that the Americans used pro [...]
Portrait of Assumpta Mugiraneza, co-founder and director of the IRIBA Centre for Multimedia Heritage (Kigali, Rwanda).
26 April 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier + Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Assumpta Mugiraneza: “The policy of memory in Rwanda must be reinvented, renegotiated” Assumpta Mugiraneza, 57, is the co-founder and director of the IRIBA Center for Multimedia Heritage in Kigali. With rare freedom of speech, she recounts the construction of memory after the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 [...]
In-depth interview with Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) for Syria. Image: drawing of Marchi-Uhel.
12 March 2024 by Julia Crawford
Catherine Marchi-Uhel: “The results of the Syria Mechanism are becoming more visible” Catherine Marchi-Uhel of France is the first head of the first UN evidence-gathering mechanism, the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) for Syria, created in 2016 in Geneva. After seven years in office, she w [...]
Frédéric Mégret
23 February 2023 by Franck Petit
Frédéric Mégret: "Justice for Ukraine depends on the outcome of the fighting” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Frédéric Mégret Professor and co-director of the William Dawson Chair in Human Rights and Legal Pluralism One year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, its leaders remain largely immune from interna [...]
Drawing of David Van Reybrouck
20 December 2022 by Christine Chaumeau
David Van Reybrouck: "The fight for decolonization can’t be detached from the fight against global warming" JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS David Van Reybrouck Historian and author Belgian essayist, historian and journalist David Van Reybrouck has taken a close look at Belgian and Dutch colonialism in two major works: “Congo, a history [...]
Portrait (drawing) of Philip Grant, director of the NGO Trial International, specializing in international justice, especially on
29 November 2022 by Julia Crawford and Thierry Cruvellier
Philip Grant: “Ukraine is accelerating a revival of universal jurisdiction” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Philip Grant Director of TRIAL International Philip Grant, director of TRIAL International, a Swiss NGO that was created 20 years ago, talks to us about the development of universal jurisdiction, t [...]
Portrait of Leigh Payne (drawing) by Benoit Peyrucq
12 July 2022 by Clémentine Méténier
Leigh Payne: Why Latin America is leading the way on corporate accountability JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Leigh Payne Latin America has been a hotbed of attempts to hold business accountable for serious human rights violations. Oxford sociology professor Leigh Payne has been working on the topic for de [...]
Illustration (double portrait) by Joanna Kyriakakis and Mark Drumbl
21 June 2022 by Thierry Cruvellier and Clémentine Méténier
“No one really wants corporations to be liable” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Joanna Kyriakakis & Mark Drumbl Why international courts have been so impotent at prosecuting businessmen? Why international law has shielded companies from responsibility in atrocity crimes? W [...]
Anta Guissé
1 April 2022 by Thierry Cruvellier
Anta Guissé: "The Sankara trial is in line with history” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Anta Guissé Lawyer at the Paris Bar For more than 20 years, Franco-Senegalese lawyer Anta Guissé has worked for the defence at international tribunals for Rwanda and Cambodia, as well as the Intern [...]
Drawing of Massamba Gueye
7 March 2022 by Franck Petit
Massamba Gueye: “We need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on restitutions between Africa and Europe” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Massamba Gueye Director of the Kër Leyti House of Orality and Heritage "I have no master," claims storyteller and teacher Massamba Gueye. He is proud to be part of a generation that went to univers [...]
Antoine Garapon
14 December 2021 by Clémentine Méténier
Antoine Garapon: "The Church says it's ready to repair, so we must believe it!" JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Antoine Garapon President of the Independent Commission on Recognition and Reparation for sexual crimes committed in French religious congregations The work of the Independent Commission on Sexual [...]
Eduardo Cifuentes
27 July 2021 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Eduardo Cifuentes: “This dialogue between victims and perpetrators is unprecedented” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Eduardo Cifuentes President of Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) Eduardo Cifuentes is the president of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, the judicial arm of the transitional justice [...]
Amzat Boukari-Yabara
18 June 2021 by Clémentine Méténier
Amzat Boukari-Yabara: “France, the United States and Brazil are the main bad guys on this issue of reparations” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Amzat Boukari-Yabara Historian specialised in the African continent French historian Amzat Boukari-Yabara, a specialist on the African continent as well as Brazil, explores the international dimens [...]
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