Transitional justice aims at providing mechanisms to deal with past atrocities and pave the way for building a society based on peace and justice. Reflecting insights from victimology, Dr Terry Savage however believes that transitional justice measures often miss the needs of victims and fail to provide justice for them. But how should transitional justice processes be dealt with in order to be truly victim-oriented?

How should transitional justice and related fields move into the future? Drawing on interviews, in the final blog post of this series Louis Bickford suggests seven ways in which the vast field could and should adapt itself to the current global context.

This blog series examined the field of transitional justice through a critical lens, having asked, for example, how transitional justice might be relevant for the ongoing racial justice movements in the world. Interviewees agreed that the field has a lot to offer at this historical moment of transformation, but that the field also needs some healthy self-reflection.

The VivaVoz programme will be a confluence of hundreds of voices from six communities in Colombia. The representatives, young community leaders with experience in remembrance and communication initiatives, share anecdotes, reflections and ideas from their regions that can contribute to ending and not repeating the armed conflict.

Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Human Rights and International Law at New York University, deals with the tensions that transitional justice is facing between local knowledge and international expertise and speaks of the power of being 'international' in the practice of transitional justice.