Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: WHAT IS IT & WHERE IS IT HEADING? – PABLO DE GREIFF


Image: Pablo de Greiff (UN photo).

Sri Lanka Brief12/09/2017

First, there are plenty of accomplishments to celebrate in the field of transitional justice, a term, which as on previous occasions, I will use to refer to the implementation of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence after serious violations of human rights and gross violations of international humanitarian law.   The first thing to celebrate is that in a fairly short period of time, a normative framework has developed defining State obligations regarding the four pillars mentioned.  Transitional justice has become in a thirty year period, one of the policies that countries are expected to implement in the aftermath of violations.  This is in itself an accomplishment.