Essex Transitional Justice Network

Rehabilitation as a form of reparation for gross violations of international human rights law and serious breaches of international humanitarian law generally receives sparse attention in the literature and in practice. This is despite the vital and immediate role it can play in a victim’s recovery. Drawing on the experience of a range of past and ongoing domestic administrative reparation programmes, the conference explored the normative and legal role of rehabilitation as a form of reparation in times of transition. It identified best practice on rehabilitation and engaged with the challenges associated with crafting and implementing rehabilitation in states undergoing transitions. . It also shed light on the international obligation of states to provide adequate and prompt rehabilitation to victims of such abuses by looking at state practice. The conference brought together a wide range of leading experts from around the world on the subject.