Project Outputs
The project team produced a series of outputs over the lifetime of the project. These are aimed at both local and international users, regardless of their academic background. They include:
Blog: Seriously Injured Victims’ Payment Scheme – Providing Some Clarity
By Luke Moffett (Reparations Team)
Luke Moffett, Slugger O’Toole, 8 June 2020
There has much debate about the implementation of the pension for seriously injured victims over the past few days. Read the rest →
Blog: Explainer on the Injured Victims’ Payments
By Luke Moffett (Reparations Team)
By Luke Moffett
The campaign for a pension for seriously injured victims has been a long road since it started back in 2012, following a report by Marie Breen-Smyth on the impact of the Troubles on those injured. Read the rest →
Blog: The Limits of the Law: Putting Reparations into Practice
by Luke Moffett, Cheryl Lawther, Sunneva Gilmore and Ebba Lekvall. This blog is based on workshops held in Geneva Academy, IOM and Palais Wilson (OHCHR). Read the rest →
Blog: Between Punishment and Mercy – Alternative Sanctions and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
By Luke Moffett (Reparations Team)
How do you deliver peace and justice after fifty years of conflict that saw millions of civilians victimised? Read the rest →
Time to start thinking seriously about reparations in South Sudan
By Luke Moffett (Reparations Team)
While the world waits in hope for the transition in Sudan, the peace process in South Sudan remains unfinished. Read the rest →
Reparations At The ICC: Can It Really Serve as a Model?
By Luke Moffett (Reparations Team)
Read the rest →Reparations at the International Criminal Court (ICC) can be seen as an afterthought at the end of trial or, more cynically, as an incentive for victims to testify and support the work of the ICC.
International Reparation Initiative for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Four Challenges
Read the rest →Following the award of the Nobel Peace prize to Dr Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad in December 2018, there is a substantial effort to capitalise on the publicity by pressing for an ‘International Reparation Initiative’ for victims of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV).
Why Gbagbo acquittal is a bigger blow for the ICC than the Bemba decision
By Luke Moffett (Reparations Team)
Just less than three years into their trial former Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé, leader of the youth militia, have been acquitted and ordered to be released by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Read the rest →
Where are the disappeared? Challenging the silence pact and looking for solutions
By Clara Sandoval and Luke Moffett
More than 20 years have passed since the signing of the peace agreements in Guatemala (1996) and more than 15 years since the creation of the National Reparation Program (2003). Read the rest →
Guatemala’s history of genocide hurts Mayan communities to this day
By Dr. Luke Moffett (Reparations Team)
Principal Investigator Dr. Luke Moffett shares his insights on the aftermath of the genocide in Guatemala. Read the rest →
A pension for seriously injured victims of the Troubles – a human rights issue
Today and tomorrow injured victims from the WAVE Trauma Centre will hold a series of talks in Westminster to advance the issue of a pension for those seriously injured during the Troubles. Read the rest →
Pensions, Reparations and Reintegration: Parallel Processes for Injured Ex-Combatants and Civilians
by Luke Moffett and Kieran McEvoy (School of Law and Mitchell Institute, Queen’s University Belfast)
While talks remain on-going about the restoration of the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly, Secretary of State James Brokenshire has apparently confirmed to the Victims and Survivors Forum that a public consultation on dealing with the past will go ahead in the coming weeks. Read the rest →
Reparations for Victimised Perpetrators
By Luke Moffett (Reparations Team)
Reparations are often touted as victim focused measures of redressing transitional justice and human rights.
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