The Impact of Transitional Justice on the Development of the Rule of Law
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- 2017-06-19
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Little is known about the effects of transitional justice on the development of the rule of law in post-conflict states. There are assumptions in the literature that the prosecution of those responsible for human rights violations or convening a truth commission will help improve the rule of law. Using a mixed-method approach, which combined statistical analysis with in-country fieldwork, this investigation found that the impact of transitional justice, particularly trials, on the development of the rule of law is minimal and not automatic. In each of the four states examined, Colombia, Peru, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, meaningful effects from transitional justice were blocked by powerful post-conflict inhibiters, including a lack of state capacity, ethnicity and corruption. These findings indicate that prior assumptions about the relationship between transitional justice and the rule of law are overstated, and they point to the need for policymakers to simultaneously address these and other inhibiters while implementing transitional mechanisms.
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Lang, Craig
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- Florida International University Libraries
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- Transitional justice
Rule of law
Post-conflict justice
Comparative Politics
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- Lang, Craig. The Impact of Transitional Justice on the Development of the Rule of Law. 2017-06-19. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3465. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- Lang, Craig, (2017-06-19) The Impact of Transitional Justice on the Development of the Rule of Law. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3465
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- Lang, Craig. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3465>.