A Guidebook for Practitioners

This guidebook is for practitioners from a range of fields that engage or would like support displaced individuals and communities in transitional justice processes. Given that displaced populations are primarily engaged by humanitarian and peacebuilding actors, this guidebook provides a starting point for practitioners to begin exploring how transitional justice can be integrated into existing processes and structures. While there is an acknowledgement and a recognition within the transitional justice field to address violations of forced migration and displacement of citizens, this recognition has not translated into meaningful participation of forced migrants in the national transitional justice processes in their countries of origin. Failure to address the injustices that generated or were created by forced displacement casts a shadow on the integrity of transitional justice processes and the ultimate goal of achieving peace. This guidebook intends to begin the bridging of this gap in the field while also engaging a wide group of practitioners who are committed to advocating for the holistic needs of forced migrant communities.