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In 1991, at the time of the Soviet collapse and following the Latin American transitions to democracy in the 1980s, Teitel coined the term ‘transitional justice’ to account for the self-conscious construction of a distinctive conception of justice associated with periods of radical political change on the heels of past oppressive rule (Luban 2006). Such political change was strongly associated with statebuilding and post-conflict transition, although, as Hannah Arendt and others have noted, even at Nuremberg a sense of reckoning with humanity itself was present. A more global aspiration of accountability became submerged in the focus on regime change and constitutional (re) construction. At that time, the foundational debates associated with transitional justice’s modern beginnings almost exclusively referred to state actors, institutions and purposes (Teitel 2000).
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Rangelov, I., Teitel, R. (2011). Global Civil Society and Transitional Justice. 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_14
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