Transitional Justice
POLSCI 537S
Eligibility: Open to JD and LLM students and Ph.D. students in Political Science. PhD students in other departments may request permission to enroll.
Transitional justice is a range of processes responding to human rights violations during armed conflicts, under authoritarian regimes, or in divided societies where a dominant ethnic, racial, or religious group persecutes a marginalized group. It seeks to provide redress for victims and accountability for perpetrators through judicial or non-judicial mechanisms, repair damaged relationships between offenders and victims 'restorative justice', promote peaceful coexistence between previously adversarial groups, truth-telling and memorialization of the historical record of human rights violations, and reforms addressing root causes.
Prerequisites
Reserved for Political Science PhD students, and JD and LLM students. Other PhD students may request permission to enroll.