4.5 — Restorative and transitional justice

4.5 — Restorative and transitional justice

  • Understand what happens after large-scale human-rights violations — how societies try to move forward.

  • Know the main tools of transitional justice: truth commissions, prosecutions, reparations, institutional reform.

  • Be able to evaluate what each tool can and cannot do. The problem. When a society has experienced mass violence or systematic repression — genoc