The EU and Transitional Justice
The EU funds international justice generously yet long lacked a strategy of its own: what transitional justice involves and where the policy gap lies.
Security-sector reform, transitional justice, demobilisation and the rule of law after conflict, from vetting and oversight to war-crimes accountability.
The EU funds international justice generously yet long lacked a strategy of its own: what transitional justice involves and where the policy gap lies.
Field research from eight conflict-affected countries on why security and justice must be delivered as public services, not military projects.
Why vetting, oversight and accountability for past abuse decide whether post-conflict security institutions earn public trust.
The DRC built its army and police from unvetted belligerents. Two decades of reform changed little, because impunity, not capacity, is the core problem.
Why donor security programmes keep missing the threats people actually face, and the seven implementation gaps behind the failure.
The 2006 EU Concept for support to DDR distilled fifteen years of demobilisation practice into definitions, lessons and principles that still hold.