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Hybrid Courts and Transitional Justice

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The United Nations defines transitional justice as “the full range of processes and mechanisms associated with a society’s attempts to come to terms with a legacy of large-scale past abuses, in order to ensure accountability, serve justice and achieve reconciliation” (United Nations 2004). It refers to the policies and instruments that deal with past atrocities to overcome social divisions (Costi 2006) caused by past repressive regimes. The central idea of transitional justice is how to achieve justice by providing a just social response to past abuses of human rights and through social transformation. What is just depends on the social context and historical experience of a society and “is contingent and informed by prior injustice” (Teitl 2000). The purpose is to comprehensively address the root causes of conflicts and violations of human rights, which were committed during such conflict (United Nations 2004), to effectively deal with the past and to create just and fair...

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Muharremi, R. (2020). Hybrid Courts and Transitional Justice. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_35-1

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