Research and Projects

I have been working on a number of collaborative research projects centred on transitional justice in Africa and Asia. 

The first of these has centred on the different mediums that can communicate about South Africa’s unfinished attempts to deal with its past. As such, I commissioned and was involved in developing podcasts and a cartoon series.

 This project embodies many of the principles I seek to uphold in my research – that of ensuring a plurality of voices are heard when dealing with abusive histories and collaboration with human rights defenders.

I have also been part of a five year project with Professor Myung-Lim Park from Yonsei University, South Korea. Professor Park is also the chair of the Kim-Dae-Jung Presidential Library. It is a collaboration across South Korea, South Africa and Germany and includes scholars and NGOS, including the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The project culminated in a conference in 2023 as well as  an edited publication “Kim Dae-Jung, Willy Brandt and Nelson Mandela: The Politics of Reconciliation, Coalition and Peace”. This collaboration resulted in me leading a comparative project covering South Africa’s attempts to deal with the past, and involved leading academics as well as civil society actors.

I have also been working with international organisations such as the international centre for transitional justice on how to best improve the gender-responsive of the African Union Transitional Justice Policy. This important work resulted in a further report for Ugandan civil society on the Ugandan Transitional Justice Policy.