!NEWS FLASH!  I just heard that Pablo de Greiff, currently the research director for the International Centre for Transitional Justice, has been nominated as Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence.  I have not yet heard confirmation through a UN press release of an appointment.  Regardless, an appointment seems imminent if the nomination isn't already the actual appointment.

This selection process and nomination follows the establishment of the new office on September 29, 2011.  I think that with the establishment of the new office and an appointment, the United Nations is signalling the importance and relative permanence of victim reparations, international criminal justice and truth commissions, given developments in these areas over the past two decades.   For more information about Pablo de Greiff, please check out his biography.

For more information about the Special Rapporteur for Transitional Justice please check out the September, 2011 news release from the United Nations.