Transitional Justice: An Introduction

Nanci Adler

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_290-1

Transitional Justice: An Introduction

Nanci Adler

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide studies

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Abstract

In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a number of legal and nonlegal mechanisms—broadly termed Transitional Justice—emerged to support postrepressive societies in dealing with their “bad pasts” to create “good futures.” These included international criminal tribunals, national or local legal proceedings, amnesties, truth commissions, historical commissions, restitution, the promotion of an accurate history, public apologies, public remembrances, the establishment of monuments and museums, and official commemoration. This overview draws on a selection of concepts, cases, and transitional justice questions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Editors	Ihab Saloul, Britt Baillie
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	1-7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-61493-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-61493-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_290-1
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 2025

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