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Protracted refugee situations and the regional dynamics of peacebuilding.

 What are the links between the prolonged presence of refugee populations and fragile states? How can protracted refugee situations contribute to conflict, instability and effective peacebuilding? This article explores the challenges posed by protracted refugee situations to human rights and security. The question of refugees has been largely absent from the international political agenda and … Continue reading Protracted refugee situations and the regional dynamics of peacebuilding.

Social repair in divided societies: Integrating a coexistence lens into transitional justice.

 This paper explores the importance of integrating a coexistence lens into transitional justice theory and practice. Transitional justice seeks to address a legacy of large-scale past abuses. In societies that have suffered from violent intergroup conflict, this legacy includes divided communities and widespread distrust and fear of the ‘other’. Transitional justice processes and mechanisms, however, … Continue reading Social repair in divided societies: Integrating a coexistence lens into transitional justice.