Transitional Justice, Security, and Development : Security and Justice Thematic Paper

Studies "transitional justice" which means measures that redress the legacies of massive serious crimes under international law. The core elements that minimally belong in a transitional justice policy include: prosecutions, truth-telling measures, reparations for victims, memorialization...

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Main Author:	de Greiff, Pablo
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2011
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9245

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spelling	okr-10986-92452021-04-23T14:02:44Z Transitional Justice, Security, and Development : Security and Justice Thematic Paper de Greiff, Pablo World Development Report 2011 Studies "transitional justice" which means measures that redress the legacies of massive serious crimes under international law. The core elements that minimally belong in a transitional justice policy include: prosecutions, truth-telling measures, reparations for victims, memorialization efforts, local justice initiatives, and some initiatives tending toward institutional reform, particularly the vetting of security sector personnel. Contrary to misconceptions, particularly on the part of non-experts, transitional justice is neither past-oriented, nor of concern to victims alone; rather, to the extent that it achieves any of its goals, it does so in virtue of its potential to affirm general but basic norms-therein its potential contributions to both security and development. The perception that transitional justice measures hamper development and reconstruction, or that transitional justice is not urgent in the aftermath of the cessation of conflict, is false. The WDR fails to emphasize four areas that deserve recognition of their roles: (1) democracy and the rule of law; (2) confidence-building and legitimacy; (3) trust; and (4) the limits of institutional reform. 2012-06-26T15:42:42Z 2012-06-26T15:42:42Z 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9245 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa Middle East and North Africa Latin America & Caribbean South Asia
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description	Studies "transitional justice" which means measures that redress the legacies of massive serious crimes under international law. The core elements that minimally belong in a transitional justice policy include: prosecutions, truth-telling measures, reparations for victims, memorialization efforts, local justice initiatives, and some initiatives tending toward institutional reform, particularly the vetting of security sector personnel. Contrary to misconceptions, particularly on the part of non-experts, transitional justice is neither past-oriented, nor of concern to victims alone; rather, to the extent that it achieves any of its goals, it does so in virtue of its potential to affirm general but basic norms-therein its potential contributions to both security and development. The perception that transitional justice measures hamper development and reconstruction, or that transitional justice is not urgent in the aftermath of the cessation of conflict, is false. The WDR fails to emphasize four areas that deserve recognition of their roles: (1) democracy and the rule of law; (2) confidence-building and legitimacy; (3) trust; and (4) the limits of institutional reform.
author	de Greiff, Pablo
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title	Transitional Justice, Security, and Development : Security and Justice Thematic Paper
title_short	Transitional Justice, Security, and Development : Security and Justice Thematic Paper
title_full	Transitional Justice, Security, and Development : Security and Justice Thematic Paper
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