The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organization dedicated to pursuing accountability for mass atrocity and human rights abuse through transitional justice mechanisms.
ICTJ officially opened its doors in New York City on March 1, 2001, and within six months was operating in more than a dozen countries, as requests for assistance poured in.
A collection of materials assembled by the ICTJ covering the years 1981–2008 is housed at the
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist Jam ...
library.
Notable staff
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Alex Boraine
Alexander Lionel Boraine (10 January 1931 – 5 December 2018) was a South African politician, minister, and anti-apartheid activist.
Early life
Alex Boraine was born in Cape Town and grew up in a poor white housing estate. He would leave h ...
, Co-Founder and First President of ICTJ
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Priscilla Hayner
Priscilla Hayner has received degrees from Earlham College and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
She is best known for her expertise on truth commissions and transitional justice, and has focused her work on ...
, Co-Founder of ICTJ and former director of its Sierra Leone, Peru, and Ghana Programs
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Paul van Zyl
Paul van Zyl grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era and served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995 to 1998.Juan E. Mendez, President Emeritus of ICTJ
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Fernando Travesí
Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa, the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka. It is equivalent to the G ...
, Executive Director of ICTJ
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Pablo de Greiff
Pablo de Greiff (born June 20, 1963) is a Colombian academic and a human rights activist, who served as the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence. In January 2015 ...