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Notes from the field: Reconciliation, justice and mobilization of war victims in Afghanistan.

Kouvo, Sari
June 4, 2015

Source: (2011) International Journal of Transitional Justice. IJTJ (2011) doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijr019 First published online: October 19, 2011

This article traces the early stages of civil society mobilization for transitional justice and recent efforts to establish a network of war victims in Afghanistan. Specifically, it focuses on the development of the Transitional Justice Coordination Group and its victim-centered activities, such as organizing a Victims’ Jirga for Justice in 2010 and a National Victims’ Conference in 2011. It also situates these developments in the context of the broader transitional justice and reconciliation processes occurring in Afghanistan. (author’s abstract)

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