Programs

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The Rule of Law Program provides guiding resources as countries deal with the legacies of past abuses, war crimes in efforts to rebuild and reconcile in the wake of violence. 

  • The “Truth Commission Digital Collection,” has catalogued the contexts, apparatuses and findings of Truth Commissions from around the world, in order to aid future generations as they craft policies and strategies to cope with the malingering ghosts of their nation’s past.
  • Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, a three-volume collection edited by Neil J. Kritz, brings together the collective experience of numerous countries and cultures over the past 50 years.
     

To help Iraqi policymakers explore options for addressing past abuses, ROL has partnered with Iraqi government and NGOs to disseminate Kurdish and Arabic versions of the documentary film Confronting the Truth: Truth Commissions and Societies in Transition.  Screenings of this film provide an outlet for Iraqi communities to confront and help resolve the effects of Saddam era and more recent acts of violence, and promote discussion of whether truth commissions might be used in Iraq.