Für den Umgang post-autoritärer Gesellschaften mit den Tätern von Menschenrechtsverletzungen der Vorgängerregime gibt es zahlreiche Möglichkeiten. Neben der legalen Strafverfolgung haben sich seit Mitte der 1970er Jahre vor allem Wahrheitskommissionen als Form gegenseitiger Versöhnung zwischen Tätern und Opfern etabliert. Die vorliegende Studie gibt aus der Perspektive der vergleichenden Politikfeldforschung eine Antwort auf die Frage, welche politischen Faktoren der Wahrheitskommissionen in Uruguay, Panama und Ghana zu einer Verzögerung bei den Aufarbeitungsprozessen nach der Transition führen. Dazu werden aus der Theorie von Transitional Justice Hypothesen zur Machtverteilung, dem Ausmaß der Menschenrechtsverletzungen und den zivil-militärischen Reformen für verspätete Wahrheitskommissionen abgeleitet, welche zur Plausibilisierung der Verzögerung beitragen. Im empirisch-analytischen Teil der Arbeit wird in der Untersuchungs- und Kontrollgruppe deutlich, dass im Vergleich zu transitionsnahen Wahrheitskommissionen ein niedrigeres Niveau an Menschenrechtsverletzungen den politischen Druck für die Aufarbeitung hemmt und die Täter als demokratisch gewählte Machthaber nach der Transition kein Interesse an der Wahrheit haben (Ghana und Panama) bzw. mit den neuen Machthabern paktierten (Uruguay). Zudem zeigt die Studie, dass zivil-militärische Reformen keinen Einfluss auf die Aufarbeitung der Wahrheit haben, wie in der Literatur argumentiert wird. Auch wird angezweifelt, dass sich die politische Machtverteilung bei der Einsetzung von Wahrheitskommissionen im Gleichgewicht befindet. / For dealing with former human rights violations post-conflict societies have several choices. Besides criminal prosecutions truth commissions have been set up since the mid 1970 to find a way for reconciliation between perpetrators and victims. This paper focuses on the analysis of truth commissions with a significant time span to the transitional period in a comparative manner and asks for the causal mechanisms linked to it. To explain the time lack hypotheses are tested on the balance of power, civil-military reforms and the degree of human rights violations. The analyses for the truth commissions in Uruguay, Ghana and Panama indicate that a lower degree of human rights violations and the elections of political leaders and parties closely linked to the authoritarian era foreclose the establishment process. These results are controlled by the analysis of truth commissions in Argentina, South Africa and Haiti that were directly set up after the transition. Further it is argued that civil-military reforms have no influence on the establishment of truth commissions and that the balance of power is not levelled as is argued in the literature.

<p>Since the 1980&rsquo / s, many dictatorships around the world have been replaced by new democracies. These old dictatorships were notorious for their human rights abuses. Many people were killed and tortured / and many others were disappeared. When the new governments came into power, they had to confront these injustices that were perpetrated under the predecessor regime. This was necessary to create a culture of human rights / promote a respect for the law and access to justice. Many confronted these injustices in different ways, some granted amnesty, some prosecuted and others instituted truth commissions. This research paper focuses on truth commissions. The research focuses particularly on the study of the South African Truth Commission. The mandate of the South African Truth Commission is analysed and the investigation into whether the commission served the purpose for which it had been established is discussed.</p>

<p>Since the 1980&rsquo / s, many dictatorships around the world have been replaced by new democracies. These old dictatorships were notorious for their human rights abuses. Many people were killed and tortured / and many others were disappeared. When the new governments came into power, they had to confront these injustices that were perpetrated under the predecessor regime. This was necessary to create a culture of human rights / promote a respect for the law and access to justice. Many confronted these injustices in different ways, some granted amnesty, some prosecuted and others instituted truth commissions. This research paper focuses on truth commissions. The research focuses particularly on the study of the South African Truth Commission. The mandate of the South African Truth Commission is analysed and the investigation into whether the commission served the purpose for which it had been established is discussed.</p>

Transitional justice is an essential part of the peacebuilding process, as the need to obtain justice for victims of conflict has been recognised as imperative when constructing peace. Subsequent to the established role of justice, the debate on approaches to justice has emerged. A debate concerned with whether restorative or retributive justice is suitable for the context, as the two are frequently presented as exclusive alternatives in academic debates.   Restorative justice favours inclusion and participation as instruments to repair harm caused by crimes, while retributive justice favours accountability through criminal punishment. This study, aspires to influence the discussion by analysing if the debate on restorative versus retributive justice is present in practice and if there is a trend of implementing restorative approaches to justice in this context. The objective of this study is relevant for transitional justice as there is a debate among scholars on the applicability of restorative justice in transitional societies.    The method of structured, focused comparison is applied to detect which mechanisms are implemented in four Sub-Saharan African post-conflict countries. The countries were selected based on their similarities, as it allows for a focused comparison. The theoretical framework adopted is the TARR-model. The elements of the model are applied as a basis for the structured, focused comparison. Further, the model is used to detect restorative and retributive mechanisms and to assess the restorative basis of transitional justice. The model was selected, as it is the only restorative value-based model available.   The findings detected the approaches to not be exclusive alternatives in practice. Further, a trend of fully restorative approaches to justice was not found in the four cases. However, retributive mechanisms were found to be contributing to restorative outcomes. A trend of combining the two approaches was detected. It is, therefore suggested, future research is conducted on hybrid approaches to justice, local ownership and traditional mechanisms.   Keywords: Restorative Justice, Retributive Justice, Sub-Saharan Africa, Transitional Justice.

Magister Legum - LLM (Criminal Justice and Procedure) / Enforced disappearances are a heinous violation of numerous human rights enshrined in many international conventions. However, they have not been adequately addressed in many jurisdictions. This crime is very common within countries on the continent of Africa, which despite having plenty of conflicts, under report cases of enforced disappearances. This research paper investigates the transitional justice mechanisms implemented in Uganda to deal with the phenomenon of enforced disappearances. It analyses the mechanisms implemented by the Government of Uganda and those by Non- Governmental Organisations. The paper examines also how the phenomenon of enforced disappearances has been dealt with in other countries such as Morocco, Kenya and South Africa. The paper suggests several recommendations to Uganda after having made a comparison with the selected countries on how to deal with the crime of enforced disappearances.

Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo a implementação no Brasil de políticas reparatórias por perseguições políticas cometidas à época da ditadura militar no país (1964-1985). A partir da experiência da Comissão de Anistia do Ministério da Justiça, busca-se compreender de que forma a legislação vigente que regulamenta a concessão de reparação econômica para vítimas do arbítrio militar é operada e como, nesse processo, novas pautas e demandas políticas são articuladas dentro da referida agência estatal. Ao mesmo tempo, atenta-se para os sujeitos responsáveis pelos julgamentos de tais requerimentos, buscando identificar as redes sociais que os aproximam e suas trajetórias vida. A partir de um trabalho etnográfico nas Caravanas da Anistia – sessões itinerantes de apreciação de requerimentos de reparação --, analisa-se como se dá a construção de um “ritual político” como espaço de enunciações e escutas de narrativas sobre a ditadura militar. / This research has as object of study the implementation in Brazil of policies of reparation for political persecution which took place during the military dictatorship in the country (1964-1985), from the experience of the Amnesty Commission in the Ministry of Justice. The aim is to understand the way the current legislation, which regulates the concession of economic reparation to victims of the military's arbitrary acts, is operated, and how, in this process, new issues and political demands are articulated inside the aforementioned government agency. Based on ethnographic work in the Caravanas da Anistia - itinerant sessions of examination of reparation requests - the construction of a "political ritual" as a space of enunciation and listening of narratives about the military dictatorship is analyzed.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Sabe-se que a efetivação da Justiça de Transição não pode desmerecer a busca pelo direito à memória e à verdade. Deve ser combatida a amnésia das sociedades que passaram por ações estatais criminosas, sustentáculos de uma ideologia política. E esse combate se faz justamente pelo resgate da verdade dos fatos e pela desconstrução de versões falsas de crimes praticados por agentes do Estado. Nesse contexto, a efetividade da Justiça de Transição passa, sem dúvidas, pela atuação das comissões da verdade. Todavia, seriam essas comissões realmente um mecanismo eficaz para a efetivação de uma justiça de transição? Quais são os efeitos práticos da Comissão? No caso específico, seria possível medir a eficácia da atuação da comissão a partir do exame dos processos e identificação dos resultados obtidos? Em outras palavras, quais foram os benefícios para a sociedade, com a instituição das Comissões da Verdade? Em que elas efetivamente contribuem para resgatar o direito à memória e à verdade e, assim, agir no plano da justiça de transição? Ou seriam apenas essas comissões representativas de um instituto formal para atender as formalidades da necessidade da atuação do Estado brasileiro por força da sua condenação pela Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos no caso Araguaia? O presente trabalho de investigação buscará responder a essas perguntas, com um foco especial na atuação das comissões subnacionais. Investiga-se, assim, como se deu a criação, qual é a composição, a metodologia adotada para o exame de casos e, naturalmente, os resultados obtidos até agora. Com base no exame de tais dados, propõe-se uma reflexão sobre o verdadeiro papel das comissões da verdade enquanto mecanismo integrante de um sistema de Justiça de Transição em busca de sua efetividade. / The intended dissertation is a critical reading of the effectiveness of the Transitional Justice, which cannot belittle the search for the right to memory and truth. Must be fought amnesia of companies that have gone through criminal state action, supporters of a political ideology. In addition, this fight is made exactly in exchange for truth from facts and the deconstruction of false versions of crimes committed by state agents. In this context, the effectiveness of the Transitional Justice shall, no doubt, by the action of truth commissions. However, these committees would be really an effective mechanism for the execution of a transitional justice? What are the practical effect of commissions? In the specific case, it would be possible to measure the effectiveness of the performance of commissions from the examination of processes and identification of the results? In other words, what were the benefits to society, with the establishment of truth commissions? In that, they effectively contribute to rescue the right to memory and truth and thus act in the transitional justice plan? Or was it only these representative committees of a formal institute to meet the formalities of the need for performance of the Brazilian State by virtue of his conviction by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Araguaia case? This research work will seek to answer these questions, with a special focus on the role of sub-national committees. Investigates as well, as did the development, which is the composition, the methodology adopted for the examination of cases and, of course, the results obtained so far. Based on the examination of these data, we propose a reflection on the true role of truth commissions as a mechanism member of a Transitional justice system in search of their effectiveness.

Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo a implementação no Brasil de políticas reparatórias por perseguições políticas cometidas à época da ditadura militar no país (1964-1985). A partir da experiência da Comissão de Anistia do Ministério da Justiça, busca-se compreender de que forma a legislação vigente que regulamenta a concessão de reparação econômica para vítimas do arbítrio militar é operada e como, nesse processo, novas pautas e demandas políticas são articuladas dentro da referida agência estatal. Ao mesmo tempo, atenta-se para os sujeitos responsáveis pelos julgamentos de tais requerimentos, buscando identificar as redes sociais que os aproximam e suas trajetórias vida. A partir de um trabalho etnográfico nas Caravanas da Anistia – sessões itinerantes de apreciação de requerimentos de reparação --, analisa-se como se dá a construção de um “ritual político” como espaço de enunciações e escutas de narrativas sobre a ditadura militar. / This research has as object of study the implementation in Brazil of policies of reparation for political persecution which took place during the military dictatorship in the country (1964-1985), from the experience of the Amnesty Commission in the Ministry of Justice. The aim is to understand the way the current legislation, which regulates the concession of economic reparation to victims of the military's arbitrary acts, is operated, and how, in this process, new issues and political demands are articulated inside the aforementioned government agency. Based on ethnographic work in the Caravanas da Anistia - itinerant sessions of examination of reparation requests - the construction of a "political ritual" as a space of enunciation and listening of narratives about the military dictatorship is analyzed.

This article is about the issue of Transitional Justice and its relationship with women’s rights. The author defines the concept of this term and makes a list of the rights that are covered by it, also she mentions that women have not been properly considered in the Transitional Justice process by not having the gender perspective, which is necessary to be done. The author concludes by stating that the reports have been more truthful when gender perspective was applied. / El presente artículo versa sobre la Justicia Transicional y su relación con los derechos de las mujeres. La autora define el concepto de este término y da a conocer un listado de los derechos que éste engloba, asimismo menciona que las mujeres no han sido debidamente incorporadas en los procesos de Justicia Transicional al no tener estos una perspectiva de género, lo cual es necesario que ocurra. Finalmente, la autora señala que se han tenido informes más verídicos cuando se aplicó este enfoque de género.

A presente dissertação tem por objeto uma análise crítica do conceito de justiça de transição. Surgida na fronteira do direito com a ciência política, a partir da década de 90 do século XX, essa expressão tem delimitado um novo campo de reflexões e uma profícua agenda de pesquisas interdisciplinares na teoria social contemporânea. Para compreendê-la devidamente, esse trabalho faz um percurso incomum nos estudos da área. De partida, para recuperar as origens mais imediatas e pouco lembradas desse conceito, procede-se a uma revisão analítica da literatura produzida por uma geração importante de cientistas políticos durante as décadas de 80 e 90, conhecida como transitologia. Essa tradição preocupavase, essencialmente, em apreender a excepcionalidade dos momentos transicionais e em evitar, a todo custo, que se consumasse uma regressão autoritária, razão pela qual recomendavam todos os tipos de cautelas e prudências possíveis aos atores políticos. Após um exame detido desse corpo teórico, destacando suas premissas e definições, bem como limitações, discute-se o que se pode considerar, nesse quadro conceitual, como uma transição justa. Esse é o germe da ideia que, posteriormente, foi recuperada e sistematizada sob o recorte temático da justiça de transição, mas já em um contexto de globalização e internacionalização dos mecanismos de proteção aos direitos humanos. A partir dessas mudanças contextuais e conceituais, torna-se então possível descrever os traços gerais da abordagem tradicional desse fenômeno, estruturada a partir de cinco eixos consagrados nessa literatura: verdade, memória, reparação, justiça e reformas das instituições. Em seguida, são repassadas uma-a-uma as principais críticas dirigidas à definição tradicional, bem como as propostas formuladas para superar as deficiências teóricas e analíticas apontadas. Por fim, depois de examinar os estágios de uma transição e os requisitos para que se consume uma consolidação democrática, questiona-se a pertinência de utilização da expressão justiça de transição para contextos em que vigoram democracias relativamente bem consolidadas. De acordo com essa tese, estrutural para essa pesquisa, o conceito de justiça de transição, por definição, carrega uma ideia de justiça excepcional e precária, a ser modulada de acordo com as possibilidades em condições adversas, que é aplicável apenas a situações de extremo conflito ou forte instabilidade política, não verificadas nos países da América Latina e do Sul da Europa atualmente. / The purpose of this dissertation is to critically analyze of the concept of transitional justice. Emerging from the intersection between Law and Political Science, from the 1990s on, this expression has defined a new field of reflections and has become a main issue in the growing interdisciplinary research agenda in contemporary social theory. To understand this concept properly, this work takes an unusual path, when compared to the studies in this area. Firstly, to retrieve the most immediate and the least remembered origins of this concept, this dissertation comes to an analytical review of the literature of an important generation of political scientists during the 80s and 90s, known as \"transitologists\". The transitology generation was concerned, essentially, with investigating the exceptionality of moments of transition and with preventing, at all cost, an authoritarian regression, which was why they recommended much caution and prudence to all political actors. After a close examination of this theoretical framework, showing its assumptions and definitions, as well its limitations, this dissertation discusses what can be considered in this conceptual framework as a fair transition. This is the embrionary idea of that was later recovered and systematized under the main theme of transitional justice, but already in a context of globalization and internationalization of the Human Rights protection mechanisms. From these contextual and conceptual changes, it has thus become possible to describe the general features of the traditional approach to this phenomenon, structured by five areas: Truth, Memory, Repair, Justice and Reform of the Institutions. The established definition is revised with the support of a critical analysis, as well as the proposals to overcome the theoretical and analytical deficiencies were pointed out. Finally, after examining the stages of a transition and the requirements for the consummation of democratic consolidation, the appropriateness of the use of the term transitional justice for contexts of relatively wellestablished democracies is discussed. According to a theory, which is essential to this research, the concept of transitional justice, by definition, carries an idea of exceptional and precarious justice to be modulated according to the possibilities of adverse conditions, which applies only to situations of extreme conflict or political instability, something that currently cannot be observed in the contexts of Latin America and Southern Europe.