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Title: | The Devil is in the Details: The Challenges of Transitional Justice in Recent African Peace Arrangements |
Authors: | Armstrong, Andrea Ntegeye, Gloria |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | African Human Rights Law Journal |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 1-25 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Burundi Congo (Democratic Republic of) Liberia Sierra Leone Africa |
Subjects: | truth and reconciliation commissions peace negotiations offences against human rights Law, Human Rights and Violence Ethnic and Race Relations |
Abstract: | Over the last 7 years, warring parties in Burundi (2000), the Democratic Republic of Congo (2002), Liberia (2003) and Sierra Leone (1999) have signed peace agreements that include provisions aimed at securing transitional justice. The novelty is not the growing use of transitional justice mechanisms in the aftermath of violent conflict, but rather that these mechanisms are being increasingly designed within the peace negotiation process. An examination of the four agreements in question illustrates a curious phenomenon: alleged human rights violators are involved in the articulation of transitional justice mechanisms at the initial stages, without victim representation, transparency and dialogue. This article examines three underlying justifications for including transitional justice in peace agreements and finds that all three fail to adequately justify the inclusion of transitional justice blueprints in the initial stage of the peace process. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |