ABSTRACT
The EU lacks a policy on transitional justice, but has, nonetheless, policy provisions for transitional justice and specific transitional justice mechanisms scattered across a wide range of policy documents. There is no policy guidance for EU mediators for addressing accountability for human rights violations in peace processes. Transitional justice, falls primarily within the EU's foreign policy sphere and there is little scope for EU institutions to engage with transitional justice within the EU: Northern Ireland is a notable exception, where the EU supports non-judicial transitional justice endeavours. The EU has provided extensive financial support to the ICC and ad hoc tribunals, through various funding instruments, including the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights and since 2007 through its successor the European Instrument for Democracy. According to the EIDHR strategy paper, EIDHR may support: international criminal justice mechanisms, such as the ICC and the ICTY. This includes civil society campaigns at a global level and coalition-building on international justice issues.
