Essay On Transitional Justice

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This chapter focuses on existing literatures and theoretical concerns that have contributed on linking the DDR and transitional justice. The first section of this chapter is the literature review with main highlights on the literary work of the relationships, connections and linkages between DDR program and transitional justice with my argument that it is important to link DDR program and transitional justice to carry out the fair treatment for both ex-combatants and victims. The following sections present the definitions and concepts of the DDR and transitional justice separately. In the last and third section, it briefly attempts to focus on the main theoretical connection, overlaps between DDR and transitional justice. In addition, it introduces the benefit of linking DDR program and transitional justice in brief.
2.1 Literature Review
War shatters the stability of the societies and split up people in the armed groups. It also affects the lives of people in various ways including women and children. It simply breaks the rule of law and order in the society. Conflict actors violate the human rights and international law to achieve their goals through unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary arrest and sexual violence. Over last 20 years, DDR programs are commonly …show more content…

This may take several years to achieve its goal because reconciliation, compensation and promoting justice are most challenging tasks in the post-conflict scenes. The resuming of the violent conflict can be stopped by addressing systematic past abuses of human rights. Therefore, it is very important to deal with the rule of law, human right violations and in establishing accountable and well-functioning states. Transitional justice is the means of addressing all components of reconstruction and rebuilding after conflict period which also includes prosecutions, compensations, forgiving past crimes and reparations to

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