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The Pillars of Transitional Justice: UN Framework Challenged
This paper examines the relationship between international, national and local approaches to transitional justice in Burundi where a Truth and Reconciliation Commission is finally being created in line with the terms of the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement of 2000. It questions the appropriateness of the UN model of transitional justice and asks: what are the key pillars of transitional justice and who is defining them? The paper challenges the domination of the ‘justice cascade’ of Western legal human rights discourse and practice in the field of transitional justice, with its tendency to transplant pre-existing models and frameworks, and calls instead for a genuine engagement with local communities in the co-creation of a more holistic and contextualised approach to transitional justice".