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This article traces the early stages of civil society mobilization for transitional justice and recent efforts to establish a network of war victims in Afghanistan. Specifically, it focuses on the development of the Transitional Justice Coordination [...]

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Transitional justice discourse is underpinned by an assumption that trials and truth commissions will assist individuals and societies to ‘come to terms’ with, and move on from, complex legacies of violence. This article [...]

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This article examines efforts to account for missing persons from the apartheid era in South Africa by family members, civil society organizations and the current government’s Missing Persons Task Team, which emerged out of the Truth and [...]

International human rights law provides minimum requirements for government behavior in all spheres of policy, including a government’s efforts to deal with the legacy of a previous regime and/or a violent conflict. To some extent, the creation [...]

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The article argues that narratives of transitional justice have been placed on a somewhat unexamined pedestal in the social sciences and the humanities. Within such narratives, transitional justice, as both a phenomenon and a conceptual [...]

Despite evidence of massive human rights violations during the Soviet era, little has been done to come to terms with this violent past in Russia: no one has been prosecuted, no one has officially apologized, only a few victims have been acknowledged [...]