Course Schedule
Week Seven: Memory and Transitional Justice
- Introduction
- What is Transitional Justice?
- Transitional justice, mechanisms and its development over time
Week Two: Dealing with Past Atrocities
- Introduction
- International Criminal Justice: International Criminal Court and Special Courts
- Universal jurisdiction
- Other initiatives in search of justice and truth
Week Three: The Right to Truth and Truth Commissions
- Introduction
- The right to know the truth under International Law
- Fact-finding committees
- Long-term effects of fact-finding committees and fact-finding committees in Chile
Week Four: The Right to Justice and Criminal Prosecutions
- Introduction
- Commitment to conduct investigations, criminal prosecutions and punishments in International Law
- Conducting criminal proceedings in transition periods (domestic and international)
- Types of criminal responsibility under International Law
- What is amnesty and can it be a part of transitional justice mechanisms?
Week Five: Reparations and Guarantees of Non-repetitions
- Introduction
- Compensatory measures as one of the principles of transitional justice
- Institutional reforms: removal from office and background checks
- Apology as a compensatory measure
- Transitional justice and art
Week Six: Mass Graves
- Introduction
- Emerging international standards for the protection and research of mass graves
Week 7: Memory
- Introduction
- Memory and remembering as one of the pillars of transitional justice
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