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Title: Élargissement de l'empire de la justice transitionnelle: Réaffirmation de la valeur de la transition paradigmatique
Author: McAuliffe, Padraig
Citation: McAuliffe, Padraig (2011). "Élargissement de l'empire de la justice transitionnelle: Réaffirmation de la valeur de la transition paradigmatique". Journal of conflictology, 2011, Vol. 2, num 2
Abstract: Transitional justice studies increasingly apply to processes of truth, restoration and accountability in contexts far removed from the paradigmatic transitions from authoritarianism or war to relatively liberal democracy on which the field was initially based. At a time when transitional justice is being evaluated with greater stringency, it is worrying that assessments of its worth might be unduly coloured by reliance on non-transitional circumstances of established democracies or ongoing conflicts or authoritarianism. A systematic empirical understanding of the value of transitional justice is skewed when undue weight is given to mechanisms applied in favourable contexts. This may be where political or economic circumstances are so advanced that the mechanisms have little causal significance to an ongoing process of political, civil and (possibly) economic reform, or in contexts too inimical to anything approaching a liberalising or peace-building conclusion (e.g. when it takes place while war is ongoing or within an authoritarian regime). The article accepts that transitional justice mechanisms can be used to improve conditions under authoritarianism or war and can augment the rule of law, development and human rights in states that are already committed to liberal democracy. However, its impact in these non-paradigmatic circumstances will be limited because of the weakness of the state's commitment to improving societal conditions in the former and the pre-existing strength of the commitment in the latter. It argues that there is a distinction between transitional justice and the use of transitional justice mechanisms.
Keywords: justícia transicional
guerra
autoritarisme
transició
judici
comissió de la veritat
usticia transicional
guerra
autoritarismo
transición
ensayo
comisión de la verdad
justice transitionnelle
guerre
autoritarisme
transition
essai
commission de la vérité
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Issue Date: 13-Dec-2011
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/deed.ca  
Appears in Collections:2011, vol. 2, n. 2
Articles cientÍfics

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