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🌀practicing re-orientation & adaptation within emergent justice collective, we have decided to re-open the call for participants for our 2024 Support & Solidarity offering.🌊 find more information about the offering, our reasons for re-opening and how to register below: 🍉 in this moment of struggle for accountability before the international (legal) system, we sit with collective grief for this system’s repeated failure to centre transformative visions of justice & its implication in colonial genocides and other mass/structural violence. where do we move to when the frameworks that are supposed to prevent and protect fail to do either? 🌱 we invite to co-create and hold space for collective grief, reflection & sense-making within the international justice community of practice.🌾visit to https://lnkd.in/dAs4R5fZ learn more about the program & register interest.

On transitional justice In today's excellent and insightful seminar presented by Caitlin Reiger on transitional justice, my questions were: 1) Can transitional justice be successful if it is designed and implemented by the government accused of the mass crimes that necessitated the adoption of transitional justice? and 2) Can economic and environmental justice be part of transitional justice? On the first, she raised the problems of transitional justice, with the government being the designer and guardian of the process. On the second question, she gave examples of success stories for including economic justice as part of transitional justice. Title of the seminar: The evolution of Transitional Justice: From post-authoritarian settings to established democracies Venue: ANU CoL.

🌟 Testimonial from a Past Participant 🌟 "As someone deeply involved in defending human rights across regions like Honduras and Colombia, ensuring the safety of defenders is paramount in all our endeavors. This course provided invaluable insights into crafting protection strategies, enhancing our programming, and safeguarding those on the frontlines of civil society. The practical knowledge gained here has truly fortified our efforts in promoting human rights and social justice." 💬 Register now and take a stand for your own safety👉 https://lnkd.in/eZJntR6w

This session hosted by CALIBRATE will discuss how Indigenous leaders are reshaping aspects of the traditional justice system. Learn more & register: https://ow.ly/UcAI50TLlzf

A valuable visual to the current situation!

Ian Bassin is a lawyer, democracy advocate, and 2023 MacArthur Fellow strengthening the structures, norms, and institutions that make the United States a democracy. In this clip, Ian, Executive Director of Protect Democracy, discusses how democracy has expanded and contracted over time and shares his hopes for preventing further recession. Explore his work and all the 2023 MacArthur Fellows on our website! 🔗 https://bit.ly/3UcM4W0 ___ #MacFellow

☀️ Exciting things are on the horizon for Policy Research in 2024! From Criminal Legal System initiatives to Housing and Income Supports projects, Research and Evaluation advancements, and Service Members, Veterans, and their Families engagements—our commitment to positive impact continues! Explore what's ahead in our Year in Review. 🔗 https://zurl.co/ebn8

Do you want to support and protect nature in your own community? "The Rights of Nature: Drafting, Adopting, and Enforcing Rights of Nature Laws in Cities, Towns, and Counties" will provide you with a full background on the emerging “rights of nature” movement, both in the United States and internationally, and prepare you to engage in your own community to develop, adopt, and enforce local rights of nature laws. After learning directly from expert guest presenters, key organizers, and tribal attorneys, you will walk away with an understanding of how Indigenous communities are adopting and enforcing rights of nature laws around the world, and how to effectively argue for the rights of nature. Learn more and register: https://buff.ly/3Qcgjds

New report from Transform Justice on the barriers to open justice https://lnkd.in/eC2MFZaD ..and an article on it in the Times by yours truly https://lnkd.in/edCFfZ58

I am so proud of the work the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission (MLTRC) is doing to shed light on buried episodes of racial terrorism in our state’s history while working with communities to create a path towards reconciliation. We just had our first lynching hearing — this one in Frederick County — in over a year, and it was nothing short of phenomenal but please don’t take my word for it. The experts, the descendants, and the community members who testified were profound, passionate, and powerful. Despite the somber topic, witnessing this truth telling felt uplifting and restorative. Please watch the hearing. Please spread the word. Please lift up these voices. I recommend starting at the 39 minute mark for a powerful presentation on the history of lynchings in Frederick County and the circumstances behind the lynchings of James Carroll in 1879, John Biggus in 1887, and James Bowen in 1895. https://lnkd.in/e6d9QTPp Maryland is the first and only state to have a lynching truth and reconciliation commission. I am grateful to serve on it and grateful to live in a state that is unafraid to confront hard truths. We will be holding hearings in every MD county where a documented lynching occurred. If you live in MD, I encourage you to engage in the important work of this groundbreaking commission. We will need your support when we submit our report and recommendations for reconciliation to the MD State legislature. If you live outside of MD, consider petitioning your state legislature to create a commission like this. As always, I am encouraged by the diversity of people who participated in this hearing. Don’t ever let anyone convince you that racial justice is a black versus white issue. There is room for everyone on the side of justice. Onward until victory is won and justice is done. You can keep up with the work of the MLTRC here: https://lnkd.in/eUq4W2gv #blm #blacklivesmatter #truthandreconciliation #historymatters #marylandlynchingtruthandreconciliationcommission #civilrights #socialjustice