POLI 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stasi Records Agency, Transitional Justice
17 Oct 2017
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Oct 16: transitional justice lundi 25 septembre 2017. Seeks ways of finding possibilities for peace, reconciliation and democracy. Regime change - authoritarian to democratic electoral rule or conflict to peace & stability. The concept of transitional justice emerged in 1980"s-1990"s. In response to political changes in latin america, eastern. + to demands by people in these regions for justice. Eastern europe opened up the files of former security agencies. Banned past human rights offenders from holding positions of power through disqualification. 1995, drawing on eastern europe and latin america, south africa established a truth and reconciliation commission. Tj focused on dealing with legacies of past human rights abuses, mass atrocity, genocide and civil was to build a more democratic, just , and peaceful social system. Seek to transform military. , police, judiciary from instruments of repression. Attempt to stamp out corruption & restore good public service and integrity.
