Alumni Highlight

Sarah Case, a 2015 graduate of Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights MA program, is a Program Manager for the Global Transitional Justice Initiative at the International Sites of Conscience (ICSC), a global network of historic sites, museums and memory initiatives that connects past struggles to today’s movements for human rights. In this role, Sarah helps lead the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation (GIJTR), a multi-disciplinary consortium of nine organizations, led by ICSC, that together serve as a new mechanism to respond to the transitional justice needs of societies emerging from conflict or periods of authoritarian rule. In the six years since the launch of the program, ICSC and GIJTR have worked in 46 countries, fostered 94 grassroots projects and engaged 422 local civil society organizations in capacity-building and laying the groundwork for community-wide participation in formal and informal transitional justice processes. By sharing ground-breaking models, emphasizing peer learning, and placing local communities at the center of their projects, GIJTR builds a transitional justice community of local populations, practitioners and policy makers that support ICSC’s core values of dignity, respect, inclusion and transparency.