ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on institutions of ‘global justice’ – that is to say, on institutions dealing with humanitarian law and human rights such as truth commissions (TCs), international criminal tribunals, and the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The global justice movement is said to have originated in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, when the Allies instituted the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg as well as the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal to deal with atrocities committed by the Axis powers, namely Germany and Japan. TCs appeared in larger numbers in Latin and Central American countries emerging from civil wars and dictatorships, as a result of which tens and hundreds of thousands of citizens had been imprisoned, tortured, disappeared, or killed. While trials against war criminals had taken place in Germany and in Japan, similar trials were envisioned but never realized in Italy.
