Transitional justice in political transition

Abstract

The first part of this study has provided the theoretical and methodological grounding as well as an overview of the system of repression on the eve of the revolution and of the dynamic post-revolutionary political context, in which to situate transitional justice discourse formation in Tunisia. Part and parcel of the political transition process in Tunisia has been the issue complex of how to deal with the country’s past with a look to the future. Early on into the transition this problematic became encapsulated in the term ‘transitional justice’ in its literal French or Arabic translation.