Transitional justice (Topical Term)

Work cat.: War crimes and human rights, 2008: p. 491 (The term "transitional justice" is often used to describe the issues involving human rights, atrocity and accountability in post-conflict societies ... Underpinning the entire discipline of transitional justice is a broadly progressive and utilitarian view of justice. Various measures, from trial to truth-seeking, are undertaken so as to facilitate and promote democratic transitions, and to help prevent any return to conflict, civil war and authoritarian government)

Index to legal periodicals via WilsonWeb, Nov. 14, 2008 (thesaurus: "transitional justice", 128 records; BTs: Democracy, justice)

Encyc. Brit. online, Nov. 14, 2008 Truth commission [article] (Truth commissions represent one aspect of what has come to be called transitional justice, which applies to a wide range of judicial and nonjudicial policies intended to build accountability and bolster reconciliation after periods of massive atrocity or abusive rule)

Black's law dict., c2004; Boczek, B.A. International law, 2005; Fox, J.R. Dict. of int'l and comp. law, 2003; Max Planck encyc. of public int'l law WWW site, viewed Nov. 7, 2008; Parry and Grant encyclopaedic dict. of int'l law, 2004

Here are entered works on a range of judicial and non-judicial policies states may adopt to address past human rights abuses.