Jiyan Foundation Releases a Toolkit on Transitional & Restorative Justice for Iraq
Erbil (November 07, 2022) – In collaboration with Iraqi civil society organizations and with financial support of the German Government, Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights and the Coalition for Just Reparations have published a manual aimed at enhancing knowledge in transitional & restorative justice.
“A Toolkit on Transitional & Restorative Justice”, aims at enhancing the Iraqi civil society organizations’ (CSOs) knowledge in Transitional and Restorative Justice (TJ/RJ) and improving their capacities in planning and implementing relevant activities. The manual combines both theoretical knowledge and practical steps to explore, plan, and implement interventions at the local levels. While the manual draws on academic discourse and experiences from other post-conflict contexts, it was specifically developed in conformity with the Iraqi context and based on accumulated inputs from civil society actors.
“At this point in time it is crucial for members of Iraqi civil society to think about, discuss, and engage in restorative and transitional justice practices. These engagements may provide an impulse for greater change and set the groundwork for a prosperous future for all Iraqis.” Dr. Bojan Gavrilovic, Head of Program for Rights and Justice at Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights.
Organizations working in transitional and restorative justice are encouraged to view the toolkit which can be found online at www.jiyan.org/publications.
A Toolkit on Transitional & Restorative Justice
This manual aims at enhancing the Iraqi civil society organizations’ (CSOs) knowledge in Transitional and Restorative Justice (TJ/RJ) and improving their capacities in planning and implementing relevant activities. Therefore, the manual combines both theoretical knowledge and practical steps to explore, plan, and implement interventions at the local levels. While the manual draws on TJ/RJ academic discourse and experiences from other post-conflict contexts, it was specifically developed in conformity with the Iraqi context and based on accumulated inputs from civil society actors.
About Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights
Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights is a nonprofit organization that supports survivors of human rights violations, defends fundamental freedoms, and promotes democratic values throughout the world. Jiyan Foundation seeks to build democratic societies that protects the dignity of the human being, where adults and children enjoy the rights to life and freedom, and citizens are free from violence, torture, and terror, domestic violence, and human rights violations.
Our programs, projects, and initiatives provide mental health, medical treatment and other health services to survivors of trauma, terror, domestic violence, and human rights violations. Our work supports nine treatment centers, a clinic for Yazidi women and families, a Healing Garden and mobile teams helping survivors in 11 refugee and IDP camps in nine regions throughout Kurdistan-Iraq, Iraq, and Syria. Since 2005 these programs have provided support to over 100,000 people.
About the Coalition for Just Reparations
C4JR is a project of Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights and an alliance of Iraqi civil society organizations (CSOs), representing Iraq’s linguistic, ethnic and religious diversity, supporting reparation claims of survivors and other victims of crimes perpetrated during the conflict with the self-declared Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS conflict in Iraq). C4JR draws on international human rights and national law to advance the right to reparations of all civilian victims of ISIS armed conflict in Iraq.
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