“The context in which transitional justice is needed today is changing. Today we have more internationalized conflicts, in Sudan, in Yemen, in many other contexts. We talk about climate justice, we talk about racial justice, post-colonial justice… so the facts are changing and transitional justice also need to change with those facts, to some extend”, explains Asli Ozcelik Olcay.
In this podcast, we reflect on whether or not the idealistic assumptions and claims of transitional justice require adaptation to survive in the face of a changed conflict and rule of law landscape. To examine these questions, IFIT Senior Research Specialist Dr. Jasmina Brankovic sits down with three leading expert voices from IFIT’s 400+ global network: Prof. Ron Slye, Professor of Law at the Seattle University School of Law; Dr. Asli Ozcelik Olcay, Senior Lecturer in International Law at the University of Glasgow; and Javier Ciurlizza, Ford Foundation’s director for the Andean Region.
“I have become to value more community-based experiences, instead of huge, national, expensive transitional justice experiments. In Colombia, I admire and I value how local community has used their own reconciliation mechanisms. We should stop looking into a single state top to down experiences and value more the community experiences on transitional justice”, says Ciurlizza.
DEAD MEN WALKING
“Dead Men Walking” - Conversations on Global Norms and Institutions - is a new podcast series produced by the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) in collaboration with Justice Info. In each episode, we bring together leading thinkers and practitioners from IFIT’s 400+ global expert network to take an honest look at the problems afflicting 20th century global norms and institutions and to consider the new ideas needed for a changing world order.
