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What Would Satisfy Us? Taking Stock of Critical Approaches to Transitional Justice

open access: yesInternational Journal of Transitional Justice, 2019
In recent years, a distinct critical turn in transitional justice scholarship has emerged, seeking to question the naturalness and inevitability of mainstream transitional justice theory and practice and to envision a broader and more holistic project.
Dustin N. Sharp
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Matrix metalloproteinase‐9 regulates cell adhesion and membrane protrusive activity of ovarian cancer cells

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Matrix metalloproteinase‐9 (MMP9) drives ovarian cancer progression. Using MMP9‐null cells (M9‐KO) created from ovarian cancer cells, we found MMP9 loss did not block Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF)‐driven E‐cadherin dissolution or EMT but delayed and reduced EGF‐driven membrane protrusions. Transient MMP9 re‐expression drove membrane protrusion.
Claire Strauel   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

(Re)making the Social World: The Politics of Transitional Justice in Burundi Die (Wieder-)Herstellung sozialer Wirklichkeit: Die Politik der Transitional Justice in Burundi

open access: yesAfrica Spectrum, 2013
Focusing on political parties, this article highlights divergent conceptualizations of key elements of transitional justice that are part of the current contestation of the dealing-with-the-past process in Burundi.
Sandra Rubli
doaj  

Are They Still Here? Transitional Justice Experiences in the Southern Cone and Reactionary Movements

open access: yesBoletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado
Transitional justice processes aim to break with a dictatorial past, repair harm to victims, and prevent future human rights violations. Conversely, reactionary movements —characterized by nostalgia for authoritarian periods— can undermine transitional ...
Thyerrí José Cruz Silva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Transitional justice and cultural contexts: learning from the Universality debate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Whenever a society faces the difficult process of substantial political transition after a period of gross human rights violations, the issues of justice, reconciliation, truth and reparation appear on the agenda.
Brems, Eva, Viaene, Lieselotte
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The skills required for transition to university and study in biological sciences: A student perspective

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Bioscience students were asked for their opinions on the value and teaching of skills. 204 responded that teamwork, time management and study skills are necessary to reach University, that scientific writing, research, laboratory and presentation skills are taught effectively during their studies, while other skills are gained inherently through study ...
Janella Borrell, Susan Crennell
wiley   +1 more source

Argentinian Transitional Justice Process: Women Behind [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the Argentinian transitional justice process, women's issues were neglected by all the different mechanisms that attempted to redress the gross human rights violations perpetrated during the last military dictatorship. In other words, democracy failed
Zavala Guillen, A.L.
core  

‘Somehow This Whole Process Became so Artificial’: Exploring the Transitional Justice Implementation Gap in Uganda

open access: yesInternational Journal of Transitional Justice, 2019
This article explores a key challenge in contemporary international efforts to promote transitional justice (TJ) in nontransitioning, conflict-affected states: the ‘implementation gap,’ in which policies are designed and funded but neither enacted nor ...
Annamaria Macdonald
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Derivation and characterization of retinal pigment epithelium from urine‐derived iPSCs

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Age‐related macular degeneration causes vision loss via RPE dysfunction and loss. Traditional iPSC therapies rely on invasive biopsies, limiting scalability. Here, we utilize urine‐derived stem cells as an accessible source to generate u‐iPSCs, successfully differentiated into pigmented RPE. This “Urine‐to‐Retina” platform provides a promising path for
Daniella Beiner   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Failing Victims? The Limits of Transitional Justice in Addressing the Needs of Victims of Violations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Transitional justice represents itself as both a discourse and practice that exists primarily to support victims of human rights violations and gains its moral legitimacy from the fact that victims are deserving and the claim that transitional justice ...
Robins, Simon
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