Preventing and ending conflict, and rebuilding in its aftermath is a complex, context-specific process. During and after violent conflicts, what strategies and tactics are most effective in creating both justice and sustainable and lasting peace? What lessons can we learn from past experiments with transitional and restorative justice mechanisms? How can human rights actors be more effective at reducing and preventing acts of violence, and what does that mean for the human rights movement’s relationship to both victims and perpetrators of violence?
