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:
LawPod – Campaign for a Pension for Injured Victims
Students at the School of Law and Mitchell Institute along with members of Wave injured group and Dr Luke Moffett have made a podcast on the ongoing campaign for a pension for injured victims. Read the rest →
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 →
Reparations in Colombia: Where to?
By Camilo Sanchez and Adriana Rudling (Reparations Team)
Colombia represents one of the most comprehensive and ambitious reparation programmes in the world. Read the rest →
The Challenge of Reparation in Uganda: The Mucwini Massacre
On the 23rd July 2002, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) attacked the Mucwini community, killing 56 people. Read the rest →
Uganda needs a body to recover ‘missing persons’
The conflict in northern Uganda cost the lives of tens of thousands of civilians between 1986 and 2008. 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 →
NIO Consultation Response on Needs of Seriously Injured Victims
By Moffett et al. (Reparations Team)
As part of the QUB Human Rights Centre we submitted a response to the Northern Ireland Office’s consultation on dealing with the past in Northern Ireland. Read the rest →
Plan de Sánchez Massacre video
As part of the project we visited the community of Plan de Sánchez in Guatemala in May 2018. Read the rest →
Time for reparations for victims of conflict-related sexual violence
By Sunneva Gilmore and Luke Moffett (Reparations Team)
Sunneva Gilmore and Luke Moffett
Read the rest →At age of 11, Anna (not her real name), was abducted on her way home from school by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
Kids with Guns
By Dr. Luke Moffett & Govinda Sharma Bandi (Reparations Team)
Thousands of children joined the Maoists or were forcibly recruited during the conflict. 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 →
Life on hold
By Luke Moffett and James Gallen (Reparations Team)
One night in 2003, armed men appeared at the door of Ditya (pseudonym) in Bardiya, looking for her husband. 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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