Designing for context pragmatic transitional justice and the Independent Institution on Missing Persons on the Syrian Arab Republic

Designing for context pragmatic transitional justice and the Independent Institution on Missing Persons on the Syrian Arab Republic

The global project of transitional justice (TJ) assumes that states are partners in justice processes. Yet, the TJ framework has been increasingly promoted in contexts of authoritarianism and ongoing conflict, where political actors are often hostile to justice initiatives. TJ scholarship has noted the expansion of the field to these contexts and is exploring how this contextual hostility to justice is incorporated into specific TJ processes.