Transitional Justice Incubator: Bridging European Fault Lines

Transitional justice is typically perceived as a product of the third wave of democratisation, which came to the fore after the fall of the Iron Curtain, bringing along with it various mechanisms, from truth commissions and lustration procedures to national trials, leading to the creation of hybrid...

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Published in:Contemporary European history 2023-11, Vol.32 (4), p.668-678
Main Author: Petrović, Vladimir
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cold War
Evidence
Human rights
Massacres
Nazi era
Transitional justice
Trials
Tribunals & commissions
World War II
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Summary:Transitional justice is typically perceived as a product of the third wave of democratisation, which came to the fore after the fall of the Iron Curtain, bringing along with it various mechanisms, from truth commissions and lustration procedures to national trials, leading to the creation of hybrid and international tribunals of global reach.1 Despite its obvious relevance, the aftermath of the Second World War is generally treated as a cursory prehistory in the transitional justice literature. With the exception of the Nuremberg trials, robust research on legal and extralegal ventures which characterised the first postwar decade remains largely disconnected from contemporary transitional justice concerns, and yet it offers a number of valuable lessons.2 Three recent publications which are the subject of this review are therefore a welcome intervention, highlighting the scope and depth, successes and fallacies of efforts to come to terms with the atrocious legacy of the Second World War in its immediate aftermath.
ISSN:0960-7773
1469-2171
DOI:10.1017/S0960777322000297