In August 2003, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Peru published its final report, putting the number of people murdered and disappeared during those years at approximately 69,000. In its report, the Commission made several recommendations, all of which were directed towards achieving reconciliation. What struck me the most was the Commission’s insistence that all of its recommendations had one major prerequisite: the establishment of the truth and the accomplishment of justice. Or, in the Commission’s words: If the establishment of the truth is a pre-condition for reconciliation, justice is at the same time a pre-condition for establishing the truth and a consequence of it.

This principle filters through the Report in its entirety and has guided me in my career ambitions ever since. When I started learning about the International Criminal Court (ICC)…

CLEEN Foundation is a non-governmental organization established in 1998 and registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Nigeria to promote public safety, security and accessible justice. Our priorities are pursued through the strategies of empirical research, legislative advocacy, demonstration programmes and publications in partnership with government and civil society.

From its inception back in the dark and twilight days of General Abacha military regime to the present time, CLEEN Foundation has always believed that…

An estimated 300,000 to 500,000 people died under his brutal reign of terror. Justice was never served. 80,000 of the country’s minority, named “bloodsuckers” by the tyrant, were expelled with 90 days to flee their property and possessions. Justice was never served. No, this is not al-Bashir’s Sudan. This is Uganda, and at the helm of hell was military dictator and President Idi Amin, who died in exile on Saudi Arabian soil in 2003. Following his 8 years as ruler of Uganda in the 1970s, Idi Amin spent 24 years unpunished, living seaside in the Kingdom. The rivers of justice ran dry as the former President soaked up the sun for more than two decades.

The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University is convening a Consultative Conference on International Criminal Justice September 9-11, 2009 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

The Conference culminates a year-long effort to better align the plans and strategies of several organs of the International Criminal Court, and other national and transnational justice mechanisms. Discussions will result in concrete action plans for improved collaboration between Court officials, civil society actors, academics…