Resource Guide to the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJP)

ATJLF
September 21, 2024
11:48 am

Purpose and Objectives

The purpose of this Resource Guide is to provide additional information to enable key stakeholders including AU Member States, Regional Economic Communities (RECs), societal actors to design, develop and implement their own country-specific transitional justice, peacebuilding, and reconciliation processes, policies and programmes. In particular, it serves as a “How-to-Toolbox” by providing practical guidelines on how AU Member States, inter-governmental organisations and civil society actors can contribute towards implementing the provisions contained within the AUTJP.

African stakeholders will be able to utilise this Resource Guide to further enhance their technical knowledge, practical insights and cross-institutional dialogue to exchange views on thematic issues, including transitional justice, peacebuilding and reconciliation. Therefore, an additional objective of this Resource Guide is to further discuss the background, context and need for the adoption and operationalisation of transitional justice processes within AU Member States.

The Resource Guide will directly reference, and elaborate, on the AUTJP in order to further:

1.1 describe the function of transitional justice;

1.2 discuss why transitional justice is necessary for African Union Member States;

1.3 illustrate how transitional justice processes can be implemented by referring to cases studies and assess what these processes are expected to achieve;

1.4 identify who is responsible for implementing transitional justice processes;

1.5 assess the role of knowledge management and the review of the implementation of transitional justice processes;

1.6 highlight the importance of national allocation for transitional justice process.

The Guide directly draws from the AUTJP document and will draw upon a wide range of African knowledge, experience and insights from across the continent.

In addition, the Guide will utilise concise and self-contained content boxes to highlight key definitions which will enable the users to further understand the design and implementation of transitional justice processes.