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Transitional Justice
The term ’transitional justice’ refers to the full range of processes and mechanisms aimed at serving justice during a period of transition of a people group, such as following a war or the fall of an authoritarian regime. Transitional justice is worked out in the steps taken by transitional communities and governments so that the
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Current Civil Resistance in Syria
Civil resistance -that is, non violent and active resistance to authoritarian regimes- is one of the most important means of transition from dictatorship to democracy. Civil resistance aims to undermine the central pillars that uphold these regimes, to strip them of legitimacy and gradually and systematically weaken them until they fall.
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Participation is everything — a conversation with Erica Chenoweth
Over the last year and a half, an historic wave of uprisings and revolutions has engulfed much of the world and done more to legitimize the power of nonviolence than anything since the fall of the Soviet Union. Just as Tunisians kicked off this global nonviolent upheaval, Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan were putting the
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No sects please: we’re Syrian
The family that rescued us was a conservative Sunni family, but I felt closer to them than the young driver who belongs to the same sect as I do. Why? It was the day of the funeral for a martyr in Midan, the epicentre of anti-regime protest in Damascus. My friends and I were
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Civil Society’s Role in Securing Effective and Sustainable Reform
Today, there is broad agreement that corruption causes unacceptable harm and that failure to address it is irresponsible. Under pressure from civil society, which is composed of nongovernmental, nonprofit, and independent organizations, governments and international institutions have concluded anticorruption agreements and made other commitments to improve governance and accountability. The role of civil society will
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