International Affairs

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the Israeli settlement of Psagot in the Israeli-occupied West Bank February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo

Labeling Israeli products, or formalizing theft of Palestinian land?

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

A demonstrator holding stones in his hands makes the V for victory. After the deadly blast of August 4 that devastated the capital, thousands of demonstrators gathered in Martyrs Square to shout their revolt and demand the resignation of the government. Violent clashes took place between the demonstrators and the riot police. Beirut, Saturday, August 8, 2020. Karine Pierre / Hans Lucas.Un manifestant tenant des pierres dans ses mains, fait le V de la victoire. Apres l'explosion meurtriere du 4 aout qui a devaste la capitale, des milliers de manifestants se sont rassembles place des Martyrs pour crier leur revolte et demander la demission du gouvernement. De violents affrontements ont eu lieu entre les manifestants et la police anti emeute. Beyrouth, samedi 8 aout 2020. Karine Pierre / Hans Lucas.NO USE FRANCE

Innovation in transitional justice: Experiences from the Arab region

Noha Aboueldahab

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Sudan's former president Omar Hassan al-Bashir stands guarded inside a cage at the courthouse where he is facing corruption charges, in Khartoum, Sudan August 19, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

Sudan needs a region-focused, multi-track transitional justice process

Albaqir Mukhtar

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Algerian mothers hold up photographs of their disappeared loved ones during a protest outside the office of a human rights group in Algiers September 28, 2005. For a decade, dozens of mothers have held sit-ins once a week outside the office demanding the return of their loved ones or information about their fates. Algeria's national referendum, which will be held on September 29 aims at ending more than a decade of conflict which will help Islamists reach their goal of forming a purist Islamic republic ,an influential former leading militant said on Monday. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi

State violence and Algeria’s disappeared: The battle for truth and memory

Ismael Gherzoul

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

A man walks past concrete barriers erected by authorities to block a street leading to the parliament building in Beirut, Lebanon January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Aziz Taher

Collective memory and amnesia after the war in Lebanon

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

A demonstrator holds up a sign during a protest demanding the removal of the ruling elite in Algiers, Algeria June 28, 2019. The sign reads: " A democratic transition and an independent justice". REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina

Transitional justice policy in the Arab region? Lessons from the African Union

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Relatives of the leaders of Morocco's Hirak protest movement shout slogan outside the Casablanca tribunal, Morocco September 12, 2017. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

The view from an ‘outsider’: Reflections on North-South collaboration on transitional justice policy and research

Catherine Turner

Monday, November 23, 2020

The International Criminal Court building is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, January 16, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

Building on quicksand: Pursuing transitional justice in times of great upheaval

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's defense Minister General Salvador Cienfuegos attends an event at a military zone in Mexico City, Mexico September 2, 2016. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo/File Photo

Cienfuegos and the US-Mexico firestorm

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, November 23, 2020

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden delivers a foreign policy address in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., January 7, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

The fraught politics facing Biden’s foreign policy

November 22, 2020