ABSTRACT
Transitional justice deals with age-old issues of justice, accountability, forgiveness, healing, and reconciliation. Specifically, it refers to a variety of measures that societies have employed to address histories of violence and repression. Ostensibly, these measures are designed to achieve some form of justice for past human rights violations. The transitional label indicates this has emerged in contexts of attempted shifts from authoritarianism to democracy and/or war to peace.
