About the Essex Transitional Justice Network

The Essex Transitional Justice Network brings together people from the University of Essex and collaborators from the UK and abroad. We are exploring issues faced by societies that are undergoing fundamental socio-political change, notably the transition from a repressive to a democratic or constitutional regime, or from a state of civil war and unrest to peace and prosperity. Read more



Second ETJN Summer School 9-13 September 2013

Dealing with Land Issues in Transitions

Registration is now open for the second Transitional Justice Summer School, which will take place at the University of Essex in September 2013 and will cover Economic and Social Dimensions of Transitional Justice, with a special focus on land related issues.

The Summer School will run for five days this year, with teaching provided by experts in the field of economic and social transitional justice processes.

Further details can be found on our 2013 summer school page.



ETJN Annual Lecture 2013 - Pablo de Greiff

The Essex Transitional Justice Network held its third annual lecture on Tuesday 7 May 2013 at the University of Essex. The lecture was streamed live to our website, and a video of the lecture is now available to view on our website here or on VIMEO. A report from the associated workshop will be added soon.

Pablo de Greiff is the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence. He is also the Director of Research at the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) based in New York, United States.



ETJN 2012 Research Seminar on Economic and Social dimensions of Transitional Justice

Discussion Papers and Report

From 8th to 9th September 2012 the Essex Transitional Justice Network and the School of Law of the University of Essex held their third international Research seminar on the economic and social dimensions of transitional justice, funded by the British Academy. The aim of the seminar was to contribute to advancing the theoretical conceptualization of the economic and social dimensions of transitional justice.

The discussion papers can be read here and the full report can be read here.



Report from the 2012 Conference

'The Law and Practice of Rehabilitation in Domestic Administrative Reparation Programmes'

The Essex Transitional Justice Network at the University of Essex, the American Society of International Law Interest Group on Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law, and the Clemens Nathan Research Centre are pleased to circulate the report of the Conference titled “The Law and Practice of Rehabilitation in Domestic Administrative Reparation Programmes”.

The conference took place at Firstsite (Colchester, UK) on 13 and 14 September 2012 and brought together a wide range of leading experts from around the world. The conference was part of an on-going research project on rehabilitation as a form of reparation.

You can read the report here.

For more information about the 2012 conference please visit our conference page.



Latest briefing papers

The Reparations Unit of the ETJN has released six briefing papers on reparations to support the work of the International Criminal Court. The papers are the result of on-going collaboration and support given by the ETJN to the Court.

Briefing papers: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]