SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Brookings Institute - Sudan needs a region-focused, multi-track transitional justice process
Albaqir Mukhtar, the director of Al Khatim Adlan Center for Enlightenment (KACE), calls for a transitional justice process that takes into account the impact of crimes against individuals, while addressing the victimisation of entire communities.
Mukhtar emphasises the importance ensuring that crucial stakeholders such as survivors, victims’ families, civil society and human rights organisations gain ownership of and inform regional initiatives, “as they can best speak to community-specific abuses and aspirations for the future.”
Mukhtar adds that KACE’s strategy for a transitional justice process deploys a variety of regionally tailored mechanisms, including: prosecutions, compensation, truth commissions, reconciliation initiatives, and memorials - with this range of justice mechanisms a “vital step” in restoring trust in institutions and ensuring that rights violations are no longer tolerated.