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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, GloriaISNI
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]
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