Transitional Justice in the 21st Century (original) (raw)

The Oxford Handbook of Atrocity Crimes

Abstract

This chapter examines the development, effectiveness, and history of transitional justice in the 20th and 21st centuries. Then, it reviews some of the key issues facing transitional justice in the 21st century. These include the emergence of a normative framework for the field of transitional justice, arising in the 20th century in the shadows of World War II and the Holocaust. It then addresses a number of the key issues that have emerged in the 21st century, including transitional justice and its relationship with criminal justice, gender justice, the role of victims, transformative justice, the template or ‘check the box’ approach and the role donors play in transitional justice efforts. This chapter thus suggests that practitioners and scholars alike are challenging the limits of transitional justice and moving past the approaches, dogmas, and conventional boundaries of the field as it arose in the mid-1990s.

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