Dealing with our violent past. Should Historical Clarification Commissions be understood as cases of transitional justice? Ghent University
Consolidated democracies are increasingly facing pressures to come to terms with their violent pasts. Faced with this burden, stakeholders are increasingly looking for ways to move from dominant and oppressive narratives about the past towards spaces for contestation and competing narratives. The establishment of Historical Clarification Commissions, as well as the invocation of transitional justice rhetoric have taken flight in consolidated ...