Transitional Justice Institute

The Ulster University's Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), is a research institute of Ulster University which is physically located at the Jordanstown, and Magee campuses. Within the Institute, there are over 15 researchers based on the Jordanstown and Magee campuses of the university. In addition, the TJI has approximately 15 doctoral students researching and studying towards their chosen topics. Visiting scholars and visiting professors are often closely involved in research.

The institute is internationally recognised, receiving recognition from the American Society of International Law in 2006 with TJI scholars being awarded top book and article prize for creative and outstanding contributions to international legal scholarship. Staff have been awarded the 2009 Hart SLSA Early Career Award and jointly awarded the 2009 British Society of Criminology Book Prize^[2] as well as the 2010 Basil Chubb Prize for the best PhD produced in any field of politics in an Irish university.^[3] The Institute is associated with the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI).^[4]

In line with the University's rebranding in October 2014 the institute updated its logo; the old logo can be found here.

Vision

The TJI undertakes world-leading research on transitional justice, conflict, international law, human rights and gender equality. The TJI model of research is based on an innovative real-world oriented research strategy, involving external mentoring of early career staff, the development of a key theoretical conceptual foundation, the nurturing of research clusters within the Institute, a strong interdisciplinary focus, and a collaborative leadership mode.

The stated aims of the Institute are:^[1]

• To build a theoretical and practical understanding of the role of 'transitional justice', and the underlying relationship between justice and peace;
• To examine the role of the international and domestic legal systems and institutions in facilitating transition from conflict;
• To make links between the experience of Northern Ireland and international experience, so as to benefit both Northern Ireland and other contexts;
• To inform policy makers involved in peacemaking in local and international institutions; and
• To make visible and critically examine gendered experiences of transition.

Research

The Institute has four main research streams or clusters:

• Dealing with the Past
• Gender, Conflict and Transition
• Northern Ireland - Local and Global Perspectives
• Theory Method and Evaluation

Projects

Projects include the Belfast Guidelines on Amnesty and Accountability; the Transitional Justice Grassroots Toolkit (with Bridge of Hope); TJI Principles for Transormative Reparations;^[5] peace agreement databases on Peace Agreements and Women and Peace Agreements. In 2015 the TJI joined a DFID funded collaborative project on Political Settlements.^[6]

RAE 2008

The TJI manages the Law submission in the RAE and REF process for Ulster University. In the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) process in 2008, the Ulster was ranked 13th out of 64 Law submissions in the UK.

REF 2014

In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Law at Ulster University was ranked 4th overall in the UK (based on GPA). As a result, 88% of all work was deemed to be internationally excellent or world leading. Concerning the new impact criterion, Law was ranked 1st in the UK, with 100% of impact rated as world-leading. In addition, 100% of research submitted was given an impact and environment rating of 3* or 4*.^[7] In terms of research intensity, Law at Ulster was ranked 9th in the UK.^[8]

The 4* impact case studies were:

• Amnesty, Accountability and Victims' Rights in Peace Processes^[9]
• Framing Transitional Justice Practice: Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland^[10]
• Gender, Conflict and Transition^[11]

Education

The TJI, in cooperation with the Ulster University School of Law offers masters programmes in Human Rights and Transitional Justice, and Gender, Conflict and Human Rights. It also runs an international summer school on transitional justice every year in June.

Governance

The TJI is led by a director and associate director. The director is responsible to the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences as the Institute is one of two research institutes attached to this faculty. The institute has staff from the School of Law, School of Criminology, Politics and Social Policy and the School of Sociology and Applied Social Studies.

Directors have included:

• Professor Rory O'Connell.^[1] (2014–present)
• Professor Bill Rolston (2010-2014)^[12]

Associate Directors have included:

• Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin^[1] (-present)

The TJI was created in 2003, with a grant from Atlantic Philanthropies.^[13]

People

Staff members:

• Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin is concurrently the Dorsey & Whitney Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a professor of law at the University of Ulster's Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her 2006 book, Law in Times of Crisis (Cambridge University Press), was awarded the Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship in 2007, the American Society of International Law's preeminent prize. She has been nominated twice (2004 and 2007) by the Irish government to the European Court of Human Rights, the first woman and the first academic lawyer to be thus nominated. She was appointed by the Irish Minister of Justice to the Irish Human Rights Commission in 2000 and served until 2005.^[14]
• Professor Monica McWilliams played an active part in the multi-party negotiations that led to the intergovernmental Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Prof McWilliams was the second Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. She received Ulster University's Distinguished Enterprise Award in December 2014.^[15]
• Professor Brandon Hamber is Director of INCORE^[16]
• Professor Cath Collins was the Chatham House Research Fellow for Latin America (2005-2007) ^[17]
• Professor Louise Mallinder was awarded the 2009 Hart SLSA Early Career Award and jointly awarded the 2009 British Society of Criminology Book Prize^[2]
• Dr Catherine O'Rourke was awarded the 2010 Basil Chubb Prize for the best PhD produced in any field of politics in an Irish university.^[3]

Former staff members:

• Professor David Kretzmer
• Professor Colm Campbell
• Professor Christine Bell
• Professor Tom Hadden

The TJI External Board include:

• Professor Diane Marie Amann
• Professor Christine Bell
• Professor Bill Bowring
• Professor Chris McCrudden
• Professor Ruth Rubio Marin
• Professor Ruti Teitel
• Dr Nahla Valji

See also

• Ulster University School of Law
• Transitional Justice

References

External links

• AHRI Network
• TJI Facebook Page
• TJI Main Page
• TJI Twitter Page
• TJI Youtube Page
• Old TJI logo 1
• Old TJI Logo 2
• Old TJI Logo 3
• Old TJI Logo 4 (Halfway down page at time of citation)

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