Reports and Memoranda

PILPG has developed the following memoranda and reports inform and shape policy related to peace negotiations, post-conflict constitution drafting, and war crimes prosecution/transitional justice.

Negotiating Justice: Peace Processes as Vehicles for Transitional Justice

This briefing paper presents lessons and recommendations as to how peace processes can best nurture and promote transitional justice.

Frontier Justice Rule of Law Summary Report

Human Rights Documentation by Civil Society – Technological Needs, Challenges, and Workflows

This report is a wide-ranging needs assessment report for human rights documenters, transitional justice actors, and tool developers. The report aims to benefit those promoting accountability for perpetrators of atrocities by ensuring that civil society actors engaged in documentation-gathering processes have access to sustainable, tailored, and secure technological solutions.

Faith-Based Actors, Transitional Justice, and the Sri Lankan Civil War

This Sri Lanka case study drafted by the PILPG team analyzes how faith-based actors can strengthen transitional justice processes and goals, particularly, truth, reparations, justice, and guarantees of non-recurrence by examining the case study of faith-based actors in the war between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Tamil Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) from 1983 to 2009.

The Impact of the War on Yemen’s Justice System

The report identifies key impacts of the war on Yemen’s justice system, covering both formal and informal justice processes and institutions in six governorates—Aden, Hadhramout, Ibb, Marib, Sana’a, and Taiz. Yemen’s war has led to an ever-changing landscape of military and political control over certain areas, fragmenting Yemen’s justice system amongst the authorities in control.

Accountability Mechanisms for War Crimes Committed in Ukraine

PILPG collaborated with pro bono law firm partner Shearman and Sterling to create an Accountability Mechanisms for War Crimes Committed in Ukraine Legal Memorandum. This Memorandum considers three broad categories of tribunals with potential jurisdiction for prosecuting atrocity crimes in Ukraine committed during the current stage of war that Russia has been waging against Ukraine.