Publications v2

“What is the restitution that you are calling for?”: Hoe Namibische belongings uit Duitse collecties terugkeren

Leah Niederhausen

Dec 16, 2025 | Tweedewereldoorlog.nl

“Restitution is a social process in itself, which reflects and reproduces existing power structures.”

Herstel als maatschappelijke opdracht: zichtbare transformatie van relaties

Nicole L. Immler & Niké Wentholt

Dec 1, 2025 | Tijdschrift voor Herstelrecht

The Child Benefits Scandal harmed individuals, families, and social relationships. This article explores societal repair using theories of transformative justice, resonance, and the justice continuum, presenting repair as a multi-level process.

Historical abuse in Dutch Catholic institutions: A qualitative evaluation of victim-survivors’ experiences with redress procedures

Naomi Ormskerk, Maarten Kunst & Nicole Immler

Nov 22, 2025 | International Review of Victimology

This study examines survivors’ experiences with redress mechanisms for historical abuse by Catholic clergy in the Netherlands, showing that empathetic, participatory procedures fostered greater recognition and agency than rigid, adversarial processes.

Emotienetwerken in tijden van ongemak

How can the conversational method of emotion networking help in situations where mutual understanding is no longer possible or the conversation seems to be stuck? In this article, Rosa Mul and Limor Reshef explore how emotion networking can also be valuable in providing insight into emotions surrounding themes such as (historical) injustice, recognition, and justice. They organized two sessions with students at the UvH on the genocide in Palestine and share their insights.

The Multivoiced Archive: Connecting Oral Histories of Historical Injustices

How to make the archive speak? This entry by Nicole Immler is about rethinking more deeply the oral history archive—an archive in which hitherto “unheard voices” will be voiced in ways they might more easily and differently listened to. This means going beyond being solely an academic depository, but being dialogical in multiple ways: the Multivoiced Archive as I call it. It is an experiment with displaying and connecting the oral (hi)stories of different victimized groups, struggling for the recognition of their experiences of historical injustice such as the Holocaust, colonial violence, slavery, and other forms of institutional violence and…

Exploring the ICTY as Cultural Heritage

The past decades have shown an increase in ad hoc international law institutions, yet the afterlife of tribunals remains relatively unknown. This entry by Niké Wentholt and Siri Driessen explores how the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, as a site of cultural heritage with layered narratives, can be transformed into a place of multidirectional memory. It identifies key narratives accumulated during the ICTY’s lifespan, reflects on silences around peace and justice, and conceptualizes the tribunal’s afterlife as both a legal institution and an archive. Artistic representations are discussed as a means to complexify and…

Daadwerkelijk veranderen

In this commissioned research for WODC, researchers from DoJ worked together with other UvH-researchers to study government measures to recognize violent in youth care. Apart from this evaluation, that formed the core of the research assignment, we also designed a conceptual intervention. On the basis of previous DoJ-research, literature, and most importantly answers from the victimised from surveys and interviews on what recognition meant to them, we developed a five-layered recognition framework. This shows that a recognition process should always address multiple facets of the violence and the different parts of personhood that are affected.

Catholic Clergy Abuse in the Netherlands: The Role of Social Relations in Redress Procedures

This article examines how redress procedures for clerical abuse in the Netherlands shape and are shaped by survivors’ social relationships, showing that relational and intergenerational dynamics are central to experiences of justice and healing.

Restitution as Restoration and Transformation

Leah Niederhausen wrote an entry on restitution as both a restorative and transformative concept for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict.

Finding the Truth but Ending the Conversation? How Dutch Civil Court Cases on the Srebrenica Genocide Shaped the Space for Reparation

Niké Wentholt and Alma Mustafić wrote a chapter on repair for the Srebrenica genocide in the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law.

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