According to the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), “transitional justice refers to the ways countries emerging from periods of conflict and repression address large-scale or systematic human rights violations so numerous and so serious that the normal justice system will not be able to provide an adequate response.” Beyond contexts of the immediate aftermath of large-scale violations, transitional justice is increasingly used to address legacies of human rights abuses, including historical, ongoing, and systemic abuses, and guarantee non-recurrence, through judicial and non-judicial measures such as criminal prosecutions, truth commissions, reparations programs, and various kinds of institutional reforms.
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