A Youth-Friendly Version of the African Union Transitional Justice Policy (AUTJP)

While the AUTJP provides a comprehensive framework for addressing past injustices and promoting sustainable peace across Africa, its current structure and language present barriers that limit youth understanding, participation, and ownership of TJ processes. This gap is particularly concerning given that young people make up over 60% of Africa’s population and are among those most affected by conflict, exclusion, and governance failures.

To address this challenge, the project sought to simplify and reframe the AUTJP into an accessible, youth-friendly resource that reflects youth realities, priorities, and ways of engaging.

The resource was developed in partnership with Impunity Watch, with financial support from the Government of the Netherlands. The development of this resource is through a continent-wide, participatory process conducted throughout 2025. This includes youth consultations, workshops, peer review sessions, and validation engagements across all regions of Africa, with in-person activities held in Lesotho, Liberia, the Central African Republic, South Africa, Morocco, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Gambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Youth from the African diaspora also contributed through an online survey.