Justice Visions
Episodes
Addressing the Transitional Justice Gap in Uganda Through Documentation
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Justice Visions' new research project - GROUNDOC - focuses on the role of documentation in transitional justice processes. In this mini-series of ...
Grassroots documentation and archiving practices in Guatemala
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this new episode of our mini-series on documentation and archiving, co-hosts Kim Baudewijns and Gretel Mejía Bonifazi explore how community actors...
Documentation practices in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this new episode of the mini-series on documentation practices, we turn to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Together with Dr. Valérie A...
Documentation and Archiving Practices in the contexts of Peru, Syria and Sudan
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this new episode of the mini-series on documentation, we continue the conversation on documentation and archiving practices together with Eva Wille...
Innovation and Documentation in Transitional Justice
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The new episode of the Justice Visions podcast turns the spotlight on the role of documentation in transitional justice. This theme will guide much of...
Rethinking Justice: Palestine and the Limitations of International Law
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of Justice Visions, we shift our typical focus on innovations in transitional justice to a broader debate about international...
The future of Transitional Justice in Post-Assad Syria
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On December 8, 2024 the unthinkable happened: the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.This new episode of the Justice Visions podcast explores how the m...
Queering Transitional Justice
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This new episode zooms in on the invisibilization of certain voices in transitional justice discourse and practice, namely LGBTQIA+ and children’s p...
Victim Participation as Labor
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this new episode we zoom in on an oft-overlooked dimension of victim participation in formal transitional justice processes, namely the labor that ...
Victim Leadership and Mobilization in Turkey and Tunisia
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off this new season of the Justice Visions podcast with a set of conversations that we initiated during the recent Justice Visions Conference...
Re-imagining Memorialization and Documentation in Afghanistan
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The new miniseries of the Justice Visions podcast focuses on the current debates and discussions surrounding memory and memorialization. In this third...
Stitching Memories: Embroidery in Shatila
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The new miniseries of the Justice Visions podcast focuses on the current debates and discussions surrounding memory and memorialization. In this secon...
Memorialization from below in Guatemala and El Salvador
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The latest miniseries of the Justice Visions podcast focuses on the current debates and discussions surrounding memorialization as the fifth pillar of...
Driving Justice: Victims' Participation and Mobilisation in Tunisia's Struggles for Redress
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1956 and 2011, Tunisia endured decades of authoritarian rule under Presidents Habib Bourguiba and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. The Tunisian Revolu...
Researching Survivors' Participation in Colombia
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The new season of the Justice Visions podcast focuses on issues surrounding victim participation, mobilization and resistance. It focuses on debates t...
Failing Accountability in Palestine and Israel
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The new episode of Justice Visions takes a distinct approach. In response to the escalating violence in Palestine and Israel following the Hamas attac...
Institutional innovation and victim participation in transitional justice
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The new season of the Justice Visions podcast focuses on the issue of victim participation, mobilization and resistance. This dedicated focus aligns w...
Re-imagining victimhood and victim participation in transitional justice
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of the Justice Visions podcast we go back to the core of the Justice Visions research project and explore important evolutions...
Transitional justice, arts and protest in South Sudan
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The final episode of the Justice Visions miniseries on the revolutionary potential of transitional justice zooms in on the relationship between protes...
Transitional Justice and Reparations for Slavery and its Ongoing Legacy in the United States
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The new episode of the Justice Visions podcast is the third episode of a miniseries that looks into the revolutionary potential of transitional justic...
Transitional Justice and Protest in Peru
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The new episode of the Justice Visions podcast is a second episode of a miniseries that looks into the revolutionary potential of transitional justice...
Exploring Transitional Justice's Revolutionary Potential
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The new episode of the Justice Visions podcast is a first episode of a miniseries that explores the revolutionary potential of transitional justice. R...
Does the re-election of Bongbong Marcos mean that transitional justice has failed in the Philippines?
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2022, Ferdinand ‘Bong Bong’ Marcos, the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos won the presidential elections in the Philippines. The vice...
Historical Truth as a Tool for Decolonisation
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The new episode of the Justice Visions podcast is last episode of the miniseries on historical truth-seeking initiatives in the (post-)colonial state....
Taking up space for decolonisation: civil society initiatives in Portugal
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The new episode of the Justice Visions podcast expands on historical truth-seeking initiatives in the (post-)colonial state. In this miniseries co-hos...
Historical Truth in the Nordic Countries
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A new Justice Visions miniseries on historical truth-seeking initiatives in the (post-)colonial state, will look into formal and informal truth initia...
Reparations Beyond the State
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Reparations are a key mechanism to redress violations of international law. They are mostly conceived within state-like frameworks and related to meas...
Bridging Syrian and International Justice Efforts
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Syrian conflict has underlined some of the weaknesses of the international justice system: the lack of formal justice avenues has left victims of ...
Syrian Victim and Survivor Groups at Forefront of Justice Efforts
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Syrian victim and survivor groups have been increasingly active in informal transitional justice processes. They assert their political agency and dem...
The Syrian Gulag: Reality and Narratives about the Prison System
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a central institution of the Assad’s regime’s system of governance, the prison is aimed at destroying political subjects in Syria. Mass impriso...
Truth-seeking and the Potential of Arts
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The new episode of the Justice Visions and Impunity Watch mini-series on justice efforts for Syrians deals with truth-seeking and the potential of art...
Criminal Accountability for Syrians and Beyond
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this new episode of this mini-series on justice efforts for Syrians by Justice Visions and Impunity Watch, we critically examine criminal accountab...
Breaking the Syrian Justice Impasse: A Mini-series on Justice Efforts for Syrians
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this new mini-series, Justice Visions podcast teams up with Impunity Watch to tell the story of Syrian justice actors’ struggle to unlock the roa...
How do we talk about historical commissions as instances of transitional justice?
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Historical commissions are not a new phenomenon. The rise and popularity of the historical commission model took place throughout the nineties and ear...
How do we talk about youth participation in transitional justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why should we talk about youth participation in transitional justice? How can we theorize youth contributions to the field of transitional justice? Fr...
How do we talk about participation?
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do we mean when we talk about victim-participation? How do we conceptualize the notion of participation in transitional justice so we can study o...
How do we talk about time and temporality in the Chilean transition?
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we reflect on the Chilean transitional justice process and questions related to time and timing. Firstly, we zoom in on the concept of...
How do we talk about truth in South Africa?
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"There was this tsunami of truths" - Antjie Krog In 1995, South Africa installed a Truth and Reconciliation commission to address the legacy of Aparth...
How do we talk about justice for Syrians?
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When the Syrian uprising started in 2011, justice and accountability were key demands of the protest movement. Civil society activists and internation...
Spotlight on Germany and Namibia
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The German recognition of the genocide in Namibia In June, Germany officially recognized the genocide against the Herero and Nama people of 1904-1908,...
Spotlight on Belgium
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transitional justice's role in addressing Belgium’s colonial past Belgium is the first country to establish a parliamentary commission dealing with ...
Spotlight on the Democratic Republic of the Congo
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we put a spotlight on the Democratic Republic of Congo where a truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) was established in 2003...
Spotlight on Sri Lanka
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Accountability and the Human Rights Council Sri Lanka’s present is haunted by memories of the island’s decades-long civil war, which ended just ov...
Spotlight on France
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What the Charlie Hebdo trial could have learned from transitional justice In 2015 terror attacks against Charlie Hebdo and in a Jewish supermarket par...
Spotlight on Guatemala
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dismantling peace and reparations In July 2020, President Alejandro Giammattei issued a series of decrees closing down several institutions crea...
Spotlight on Chile
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From social protest to reforming rights: understanding Chile’s ongoing transition On the 25th of October 2020, an overwhelming majority of Chilean c...
Spotlight on Syria
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Justice for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Syria Since the start of the uprising in 2011, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) ha...
Spotlight on Cambodia
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does the death of defendants in high-profile transitional justice cases mean for victims? On 2 September 2020, Kaing Guek Eav, known as Comrade D...
Memory: securing the past and imagining the future
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Memory and narratives play a crucial role in transitional justice. What do we remember of past violence, and how do we narrate those memories? In whic...
Universal jurisdiction: the unthinkable becomes thinkable
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How to hold perpetrators of crimes against humanity or war crimes accountable? Bringing perpetrators of crimes against humanity, war crimes, or genoc...
What about social and economic rights?
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about human rights violations? Chances are that you are thinking about issues like torture,...
Victimization
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When talking about victim participation in transitional justice processes, we need to better understand the notions of victim, victimhood, and victimi...
The evolution of the field (with Laurel Fletcher)
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From the previous episode, it became clear how strongly the field of transitional justice is interwoven with that of international criminal justice. W...
Legal opportunities and challenges
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Victim participation is receiving increasing attention in transitional justice. In the pilot episode, it became clear that there is potentially tremen...
Pilot: Introduction to Justice Visions
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the pilot episode of Justice Visions Talks, your go-to for everything that is new and innovative in the domain of transitional justice. In ...