International Center for Transitional Justice

The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) "assists countries pursuing accountability for past mass atrocity or human rights abuse. The Center works in societies emerging from repressive rule or armed conflict, as well as in established democracies where historical injustices or systemic abuse remain unresolved." 

"The ICTJ was first conceived at a strategy meeting hosted by the Ford Foundation in April 2000...The participants expressed broad support for the establishment of an organization focusing on transitional justice. The Foundation subsequently asked three consultants— Alex Boraine, Priscilla Hayner and Paul van Zyl — to develop a plan for such an organization. Their initial five-year proposal received funding support from the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Andrus Family Fund.

"The 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. In 2004 Founding President Alex Boraine returned to South Africa to establish the Center’s Cape Town Office. Offices in Brussels and Geneva followed in 2005." 


 * President - Juan E. Mendez

Foundations and Other Organizations

 * Andrus Family Fund, Atlantic Philanthropies, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, International Development Research Centre, Internews Europe, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, OSI Development Foundation, Open Society Initiative for West Africa, Overbrook Foundation, Philanthropic Collaborative, Sigrid Rausing Trust, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, United Nations Development Programme

Governments

 * Canadian International Development Agency, Denmark Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of Finland in Pretoria, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein to the United Nations, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the United Nations

Individuals
(gifts of $100 or more) Source pdf
 * Anonymous (2), Nicole Ball, Robert K. Goldman, Kimberly Lanergan, Vincent Mai and Anne Mai, Kati Marton, Donald F. McHenry, Diane Orentlicher, James H. Ottaway, Jr., Regina Sandler-Phillips, Minna Schrag and [[David Goldblatt

Partner Organizations
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 * Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (Afghanistan)
 * Arab Institute for Human Rights (Tunisia) www.aihr.org.tn
 * Association for Human Rights (Peru)?www.aprodeh.org.pe
 * Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) www.kuleuven.ac.be
 * Center for Human Rights Legal Action (Guatemala)?www.caldh.org
 * Centre for Dealing with the Past (Croatia) www.documenta.hr
 * Centre for Policy Alternatives (Sri Lanka) www.cpalanka.org
 * Centre for the Study of Human Rights (Sri Lanka) www.cshr.org
 * Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (South Africa)www.csvr.org.za
 * Commission on Involuntary Disappearances and Victims of Violence (Indonesia) www.kontras.org
 * Conflict Management and Development Associates (Sierra Leone)
 * Congolese Coalition for Transitional Justice (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
 * Documentation Center of Cambodia (Cambodia) www.dccam.org
 * Equitas (Colombia)www.equitas.org.co
 * Ghana Center for Democratic Development (Ghana) www.cdd-ghana.org
 * Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project (United States)?www.gtcrp.org
 * Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (Guatemala) www.fafg.org
 * Human Rights Center of the University of California, Berkeley (United States) www.hrcberkeley.org
 * Human Rights Center of the University of Chile Law School (Chile) ?ww.uchile.cl
 * Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka) www.hrc-srilanka.org
 * Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (Thailand) www.hreib.org
 * Human Rights Office of the Social Foundation (Colombia)?www.fundacion-social.com.co
 * Humanitarian Law Center (Serbia and Montenegro) www.hlc.org.yu
 * Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (South Africa) www.ijr.org.za
 * Iraq Memory Foundation (Iraq) www.iraqmemory.org
 * Foundation Ideas for Peace (Colombia) www.ideaspaz.org
 * Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (Indonesia) www.elsam.or.id
 * International Centre for Ethnic Studies (Sri Lanka) www.icescolombo.org
 * International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience (United States) www.sitesofconscience.org
 * Judicial System Monitoring Programme (Timor-Leste) www.jsmp.minihub.org
 * Khulumani Support Group (South Africa) www.khulumani.net
 * Kosovar Research and Documentation Institute (Kosovo) www.kodi-ks.org
 * Law & Society Trust (Sri Lanka)?www.lawandsocietytrust.org
 * Liberia National Law Enforcement Association (Liberia)
 * Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (Lebanon) www.lcps-lebanon.org
 * Legal Aid Institute (Indonesia) www.ylbhi.or.id
 * National Human Rights Coordinating Group (Peru) www.dhperu.org
 * NGO Follow-up Committee (Morocco)
 * Peace Advocates for Truth and Healing (The Philippines)
 * Post-conflict Reintegration Initiative for Development and Empowerment (Sierra Leone)
 * Research and Documentation Center (Bosnia and Herzegovina)?www.idc.org.ba
 * Sierra Leone Court Monitoring Programme (Sierra Leone)?www.slcmp.org
 * Sustainable Democracy Center (Lebanon) www.sdclebanon.org
 * Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (The Philippines)?www.tfdp.org
 * Transitional Justice Working Group (Liberia)

Board of Directors
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 * Alex Boraine, Chairperson and Director of Cape Town Office Global Visiting Professor of Law, Hauser Global Law School Program, New York University School of Law
 * Vincent Mai, Vice Chairperson Chairman, AEA Investors, Inc.
 * Kofi Appenteng Partner, Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP
 * Siri Frigaard Chief Public Prosecutor, Norwegian National Authority for Prosecution of Organized and Other Serious Crime
 * Yash Pal Ghai Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Human Rights in Cambodia
 * Richard Goldstone Chancellor, University of the Witwatersrand. Former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa
 * Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi Executive Director, Ghana Center for Democratic Development. Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Ghana
 * David Hamburg President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York. Visiting Scholar, Weill Medical College, Cornell University
 * Alexis Keller Professor of history of legal and political thought at the Faculty of Law, University of Geneva
 * Kati Marton Chair, International Women's Health Coalition. Director and Former Chair, Committee to Protect Journalists
 * Donald F. McHenry Former US Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
 * Ken Miller Senior Advisor, Lehman Brothers. CEO and President, Ken Miller Capital, LLC
 * James H. Ottaway, Jr. Director, Ottaway Newspapers, Inc
 * Samantha Power Founding Exec Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University. Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
 * Minna Schrag Retired Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP. Senior Attorney, International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1994-95)
 * Theodore C. Sorensen Retired Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
 * José Zalaquett Professor of Human Rights, Law School of the University of Chile

Contact

 * Web: http://www.ictj.org

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