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This short course will provide a comprehensive, multidimensional and practical examination of truth commissions, shedding light on both its aims and the practical challenges it has met or is likely to meet.
Every year, at the Graduation Ceremony, the Henry Dunant Research Prize, the Best LLM Paper Prize and the Best MTJ Paper Prize reward three students for their exceptional academic work.
Students of our LLM in IHL and Human Rights and MAS in Transitional Justice are starting their 2019–2020 academic year.
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Portrait of Juan Daniel Salazar
Juan Daniel Salazar is the Head of Cooperation and Strategic Alliances at Colombia’s National Center of Historical Memory, a national state institution in charge of the symbolic reparations for the victims of the Colombian armed conflict. He tells about the programme and what it brought to his career.
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Tania Bonilla Matiz is a Professional Advisor at Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace. She tells us about the programme and what it brought to her career.
Visiting Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Professor at the University of Essex School of Law and Director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network
Co-Director of the Master in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Centre for International Studies and Councillor at the World Future Council
Transitional Justice Adviser, Sri Lanka, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Co-Director of the Master in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law
For me as a practitioner, the Master in Transitional Justice not only allowed me to acquire a more solid legal background in criminal justice, theories of transitional justice or international human rights law, but it also provided me with a more holistic view on transitional justice and new perspectives I can use daily in my work.
The programme is structured around six modules that cover central theoretical and practical issues in the fields of transitional justice, human rights and the rule of law.
The Master in Transitional Justice combines high-level academic education with real-world practice, allowing students to develop the transferable skills necessary to succeed in the professional world.
Our campus spans from Geneva’s international area to downtown Geneva with its vibrant cultural life.
Our Master in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law is organized around intimate learning communities enabling close interaction between students and professors.
