Write On! Transitional Justice

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.)

The International Journal of Transitional Justice invites submissions for its 2011 special issue titled "Civil Society, Social Movements and Transitional Justice." Guest-editing the issue will be Dr. Lucy Hovil (left), Senior Researcher, Citizenship and Displacement in the Great Lakes region, International Refugee Rights Initiative; and Moses Chrispus Okello, Project Coordinator, Beyond Juba Project and Senior Research Advisor, Refugee Law Project, Uganda.
Possible topics to be covered include:
► Survivor/victim organizations and transitional justice
► Transitional justice, as a social movement, and as an international human rights movement
► Political context for civil society operating in periods of transition
► Roles of various entities and actors, including funders, civil society, media, and popular culture
► Relationship among local, national, transnational and international civil society, as well as political context for civil society operating in periods of transition
► Impact of transitional justice mechanisms on civil society
► Engagement of religious actors in transitional justice processes
► Art and literature
► Women's groups and transitional justice
► Civil society and disarmament, demobilization and rehabilitation
The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2011. Papers should be submitted online from the Journal's webpage. For questions or further information, please contact the Journal's Managing Editor at ijtj@csvr.org.za.

Write On! "'Transitional Justice on Trial"

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.)
In anticipation of its 2010 special issue, the International Journal of Transitional Justice has issued a call for papers. The topic: "Transitional Justice on Trial: Evaluating Its Impact."
Guest-editing the volume will be Colleen Duggan, Senior Program Specialist at the Evaluation Unit of the Canada-based International Development Research Centre. Subjects to be covered will include:
► Methodologies for evaluating the impact of transitional justice mechanisms and projects;
► Challenges of conducting evaluation in transitional justice;
► Lessons learned from monitoring and evaluation in other fields;
► Integrating monitoring and evaluation tools into transitional justice mechanisms;
► Evaluation case studies;
► Cross-disciplinary approaches;
► Experimental designs;
► The politics of evaluation; and
► Ethics of evaluation.
The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2010. Papers should be submitted via the online process at the journal's webpage. For further information, contact Managing Editor Nahla Valji at ijtj@csvr.org.za.

Write On! Local transitional justice

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.) "Whose Justice? Global and Local Approaches to Transitional Justice" is the theme of a forthcoming edition of the International Journal of Transitional Justice, which has just issued a call for papers.Special editor for this edition will be Dr. Kimberly Theidon (below left), Associate Professor of Anthropology at Harvard and Executive Director of the Praxis Institute for Social Justice.
The issue's aim: to track new developments in transitional justice; specifically, the contemporary reality that calls on "practitioners ... increasingly ... to intervene in contexts in which the issues of justice, redress and social reonstruction involve 'intimate enemies.'" Addressing these issues increasingly may require more intimate, more local, responses.
Paper topics may include:
► Who defines transitional justice and its goals, and what's the content of those definitions?
► How do international justice mechanisms interrelate with local processes and priorities, on matters such as complementarity, sequencing, and victimhood?
► What's the role of various actors in applying a transitional justice politics of scale?
► Do transitional justice mechanisms contribute to reconciliation and social reconstruction, and if so, how?
► How might local mechanisms be incorporated into national or international interventions?
► What's the spectrum of local mechanisms? What role can local ritual, for example, play?
Online submissions may be made at the Journal 's webpage; for more information, e-mail ijtj@csvr.org.za. Deadline for submissions is April 15, 2009.

Write On! Transitional Justice & Development

(Write On! is an occasional item about notable calls for papers.) "Transitional Justice and Development" will be the theme of a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice. Editors seek papers for the issue, which, it's hoped, will help to "bridge the gap between the fields of transitional justice, development and peacebuilding" by publishing articles on a host of topics. Here's a sampling of some possible areas of focus:
► establishment of good governance through institutional reform post-conflict
► accountability of state and nonstate actors alike, for wrongdoing such as violations of economic and social rights and economic crimes
► gender, transitional justice, and development
► World Bank policies in post-conflict areas
► poverty and economic development programs as distributive justice or reparations
Deadline for submission, at the journal's website, is June 15, 2008. For further information, e-mail ijtj@csvr.org.za.

"Gender & Transitional Justice"

Hot off the presses, the new Oxford review, International Journal of Transitional Justice, devotes an entire volume to issues of "Gender and Transitional Justice." The lineup and contents look terrific, beginning with the Editorial Note by Navanethem Pillay, a Judge on the International Criminal Court and formerly President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Among the special issue's other rich offerings:

► Underenforcement and Intersectionality: Gendered Aspects of Transition for Women, by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin of the Universities of Minnesota and Ulster and Eilish Rooney of the University of Ulster

► Depoliticised Speech and Sexed Visibility: Women, Gender and Sexual Violence in the 1999 Guatemalan Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico Report, by Emily Rosser of York University in Toronto

► The Gender of Transitional Justice: Law, Sexual Violence and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, by Kirsten Campbell of the University of London

► A book review of What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations (Ruth Rubio-Marín ed., 2006), by Katie Zoglin, a Bay Area-based colleague now working for the American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative in Morocco.

And that's just a sampling.