Developments in the Field of Transitional Justice - Valerie Arnould

One central element that has TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE EXPANSION emerged from these discussions is the need to A second trend has been the expansion of shape transitional justice to local contexts and to transitional justice, which suggests its growing apply conflict sensitivity to transitional justice in political and legal relevance in the world. [...] For instance, there is growing growth of transitional justice practices by regional examination of the usefulness of transitional justice and international organisations (in particular the in established democracies, to deal with colonial United Nations), and the creation of national pasts (whether within the former coloniser state or transitional justice ministries. [...] The fact that this has become a concerns that the growing bureaucratisation, hot topic is evidenced by the UN Special professionalisation and ritualisation of transitional Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, justice has stymied transitional justice innovation. [...] transitional justice and the liberal peacebuilding and state-building agendas has in particular been TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IMPACT subject to critique, leading to calls for a post-liberal The fourth trend has been the expansion of transitional justice. [...] The past decade has seen growing debates about the need for transitional justice to promote THE CRITICAL TURN IN TRANSITIONAL economic justice and social justice and to address JUSTICE the structural inequalities and injustice that The final trend worth highlighting is the underpin violent conflicts and mass human rights emergence of a ‘critical turn’ in the transitional violations.