Our Vision
All victims and survivors of international crimes and serious human rights violations have access to justice, contributing to peaceful and inclusive societies.
Our Mission
Justice Rapid Response partners with international, national and civil society actors by providing them with prompt, impartial and professional expertise, tailored to each context, to investigate international crimes and serious human rights violations and to promote the rights and access to justice of victims and survivors.
Our Strategy
The detrimental effects of large-scale grave human rights violations and international core crimes have lasting impacts on society as a whole. Addressing the social damage of atrocity crimes is part of an effective and sustainable peace-building process and entails promoting the enabling conditions to ensure that victims and survivors have access to justice.
Justice and accountability processes, as long as they function effectively and are reliable, are internationally recognized solutions to bring a sense of justice to victims, thus deterring future offenders and promoting reconciliation and durable peace, in line with SDG 16.
However, the capacity to deliver justice to victims and survivors and really deter future offenders has lagged behind. Most often, the needed expertise to ensure that investigations – the cornerstone of any accountability process – are done professionally with a victim-centred approach and as swiftly as possible is not available.
This is precisely why JRR has been established: to bridge this expertise gap.