Failing Victims? The Limits of Transitional Justice in Addressing the Needs of Victims of Violations

Transitional justice represents itself as both a discourse and practice that exists primarily to support victims of human rights violations and gains its moral legitimacy from the fact that victims are deserving and the claim that transitional justice has the aim of acknowledging victims and providing redress. Here, this claim is interrogated in the light of a practice that actually appears to be rooted in liberal state-building and for which victims are an essential instrument of prescribed mechanisms of transitional justice, such as trials and truth commissions.

Key wordspeace processes / post conflict / transitional justice

CountriesGlobal

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