About this Site

Our Work

TJET compiles data on human rights prosecutions, amnesties, truth commissions, reparations policies, and vetting policies around the world. This website makes available these data and provides analyses.

TJET is going to publish a human rights accountability index currently in development, which will assess every country over time on its accountability efforts for past human rights violations.

The TJET Reference Library provides references for almost 10,000 published sources on transitional justice around the world.

Our Mission

The Transitional Justice Evaluation Team (TJET) is based at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the University of Toronto. This website features a global database of transitional justice mechanisms, including human rights prosecutions, truth commissions, reparations policies, and vetting policies. The database builds on existing data previously collected as part of the Transitional Justice Research Collaborative (TJRC), sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The site also features the results of population surveys conducted in several countries.

The project aims to contribute to the prevention of atrocities in fragile states and globally by supporting evidence-based policies. Since 2020, our team members have developed research, generated data, met with policymakers and practitioners, and conducted training and outreach, all with the goal of improving assistance to victims and enhancing the effectiveness of transitional justice mechanisms. The data and evidence generated by this project will serve to design better policy to address the complex needs of survivors of violence and conflict for accountability. For that reason, survivors as well as the general population in conflict and transitional societies are the project’s ultimate beneficiaries. The research will also clarify which mechanisms or combinations of mechanisms are most likely to effectively address the needs of survivors in a given context. This project will provide evidence about the impacts of transitional justice to help governments and advocates design policies and manage expectations about their impacts.

Listen to this Justice Matters podcast episode for a discussion of TJETs origins and mission.

Our Commitment

TJET is devoted to fully open and free data. We are also committed to error correction. The purpose of this site is not to present an authoritative or frozen database, but to offer a starting point on which to build a more complete and updated repository of information on transitional justice around the world. As such, the TJET database is intended to evolve based on user feedback. Please consider offering comments on this website using our Corrections Form. Questions about TJET or concerns can be sent to tjetdata@gmail.com.