Transitional Justice Tag

Truth, Justice and Reparation: The Unfinished Architecture of Transitional Justice

There is a moment, in every society emerging from mass violence, when the law runs out of easy answers. Trials cannot try everyone. Archives are incomplete or deliberately destroyed. Perpetrators die, flee, or are protected by the very institutions meant to hold them accountable. Out of that impasse, over the last half-century, the international community...