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Countries emerging from civil conflict invariable face the important question of how to reconcile critical issues of justice and accountability left by the war, with the need to consolidate a peace process (Huyse and Salter 2008). A recent study (Hayner 2009: 5) identifies this as a ‘peace versus justice dilemma’ which arises out of ‘a tension between prioritizing the end to a conflict … versus prioritizing justice and the rule of law, insisting on criminal prosecutions as a non-negotiable component of any successful peace process’.
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Goinhas, S., Kendall, S., Sesay, A. (2011). Transitional Justice in Sierra Leone. In: Anheier, H., Glasius, M., Kaldor, M., Park, GS., Sengupta, C. (eds) Global Civil Society 2011. Global Civil Society Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230303805_13
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