transitional justice
tran-SIZH-uh-nul JUS-tis
trænˈzɪʃənəl ˈdʒʌstɪsListen
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the set of judicial and non-judicial measures implemented by societies emerging from periods of conflict, authoritarian rule, or systematic human rights violations to address legacies of atrocity and build foundations for democratic governance and sustainable peace; the four pillars of transitional justice are truth — establishing what happened and creating an authoritative historical record; justice — holding perpetrators accountable through prosecutions, vetting, or other measures; reparations — providing material and symbolic redress to victims; and guarantees of non-recurrence — institutional reforms to prevent future violations; mechanisms include truth and reconciliation commissions, international and hybrid criminal tribunals, lustration processes, reparations programmes, and memorialisation; debates within transitional justice concern the tensions between peace and justice, between amnesty and accountability, and between top-down and grassroots approaches
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