Add to ORKGDuring the last decades there has been an ever-increasing amount of democratic transitions taking place all over the world. In connection to this phenomenon, transitional justice has developed as a subfield in post-conflict peacebuilding, dealing with the judicial aspect of transitions. In applying theoretical constituents of transitional justice, this study examines the concepts of lustration (i.e. political purges) and truth-revealing processes in relation to reconciliation and democratic consolidation in South Africa, the Czech Republic and Northern Ireland. Though culturally and socially somewhat differing cases, they share similar problematic issues. In examining the effects of lustration and truth-revealing, the conclusions are not un...
In the post-Cold War period, truth commissions have become a standard mechanism for settling past ac...
Poland and South Africa have each inherited a similar legacy of human rights violations perpetrated ...
This Article proposes a genealogy of transitional justice and focuses on transitional justice as one...
During the last decades there has been an ever-increasing amount of democratic transitions taking pl...
How do transitional democracies deal with officials who have been tainted by complicity with prior g...
Throughout the past three decades the world has witnessed an increased transition of states from aut...
Lustration laws, which discharge the influence of old power structures upon entering democracies, ar...
The Sub-Saharan African countries of South Africa, Sierra Leone and Rwanda have recently gone throug...
This thesis is a critical analysis of the co-existence of different transitional justice mechanisms ...
When states emerge from violent conflicts or authoritarian oppression, there is a need to address vi...
The article begins with a discussion of the transitional justice concept, which is followed by a bri...
In this comparative review, I first evaluate scholarly findings attempting to dis/prove a relationsh...
The Sub-Saharan African countries of South Africa, Sierra Leone and Rwanda have recently gone throug...
Drawing upon an interdisciplinary synthesis of literature from political science, social psychology,...
Transitional justice as a research field has for a long time only focused on countries in conflict. ...
In the post-Cold War period, truth commissions have become a standard mechanism for settling past ac...
Poland and South Africa have each inherited a similar legacy of human rights violations perpetrated ...
This Article proposes a genealogy of transitional justice and focuses on transitional justice as one...
During the last decades there has been an ever-increasing amount of democratic transitions taking pl...
How do transitional democracies deal with officials who have been tainted by complicity with prior g...
Throughout the past three decades the world has witnessed an increased transition of states from aut...
Lustration laws, which discharge the influence of old power structures upon entering democracies, ar...
The Sub-Saharan African countries of South Africa, Sierra Leone and Rwanda have recently gone throug...
This thesis is a critical analysis of the co-existence of different transitional justice mechanisms ...
When states emerge from violent conflicts or authoritarian oppression, there is a need to address vi...
The article begins with a discussion of the transitional justice concept, which is followed by a bri...
In this comparative review, I first evaluate scholarly findings attempting to dis/prove a relationsh...
The Sub-Saharan African countries of South Africa, Sierra Leone and Rwanda have recently gone throug...
Drawing upon an interdisciplinary synthesis of literature from political science, social psychology,...
Transitional justice as a research field has for a long time only focused on countries in conflict. ...
In the post-Cold War period, truth commissions have become a standard mechanism for settling past ac...
Poland and South Africa have each inherited a similar legacy of human rights violations perpetrated ...
This Article proposes a genealogy of transitional justice and focuses on transitional justice as one...