Redressing victims: lessons from reparative justice frameworks

This policy brief reflects on and analyses different methods to redress victims of international crime.

Reparations for the millions of victims in post-conflict African states have at best been an afterthought in criminal accountability processes; and at worst, a tool used for political mileage, often around elections. Where implemented at the international and national levels, models of reparative justice could be gleaned for states to reflect on their own processes to meet their obligations to redress victims. This policy brief attempts to reflect and analyse different methods to redress victims of international crime.

 
About the authors

Allan Ngari is a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies working on international criminal justice. He is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya.

Steven Kayuni, a law consultant at Ethan & Bill Consultants, has worked on international criminal justice for over 13 years and has published in the same area. He is an advocate of the High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal of Malawi.

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