ABSTRACT
Transitional Justice is a concept and processes that encompass a number of different legal, political and cultural instruments and mechanisms that can strengthen, weaken, enhance or accelerate processes of regime change and consolidation. Transitional justice measures can be politically instrumentalised, used or abused, and the process outcome depends on a variety of different actors involved. In the hands of political and civil actors, such initiatives can lead to reparations, legal, security sector or institutional reforms. Transitional justice measures can be divided into different categories: procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice measures, such as trials, truth commissions, reconciliation programmes, vetting, lustration, security sector reforms, apologies, reparations, compensations or memorials and many different ways of dealing with the past. An inclusive transitional justice process aims to include all parties or members that were involved in the conflict or dictatorship, may they be victims, bystanders or perpetrators, regardless of their political or social status, religious or ethnic background.
