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Not unexpectedly, the pre-existing context in many post-conflict or post-repressive societies can be the source of problems that beset transitional justice processes. But if that context is ameliorated, the pre-conditions for more successful transitional justice can be created. This chapter identifies some of those ameliorating factors and argues that they may create a more favourable environment for transitional justice in two ways: First, at the attitudinal level, they may change broader social ethos that might impede a transitional justice process. Second, at the institutional level, targeted reforms may allow the institutions to work better.
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International Crisis Group, “Can Gas Save Cyprus? The Long-Term Cost of Frozen Conflicts,” accessed 8 August 2019; https://www.crisisgroup.org/europe-central-asia/western-europemediterranean/cyprus/can-gas-save-cyprus-long-term-cost-frozen-conflicts.
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Paige Arthur, “How ‘Transitions’ Re-shaped Human Rights: A Conceptual History of Transitional Justice,” Human Rights Quarterly 31, no. 2 (2009), 355.
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Arthur, “How ‘Transitions’ Re-shaped Human Rights,” 326.
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Jack Donnelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003), 47.
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Mark Freeman, Necessary Evils: Amnesties and the Search for Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009); and Louise Mallinder, Amnesties and Inclusive Political Settlements, PA-X Report: Transitional Justice Series (Edinburgh: Global Justice Academy, University of Edinburgh, 2018).
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See, for example, Muna B. Ndulo and Roger Duthie, Research Brief: The Role of Judicial Reform in Development and Transitional Justice, Research Unit (New York: International Center for Transitional Justice, July 2009).
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See, for example, Fernando Coronil and Julie Sikurski, eds., States of Violence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006).
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El-Masri, S., Lambert, T., Quinn, J.R. (2020). Moving Forward: The Possibilities That Obtain from Ameliorating the Context to Create Conditions for Success. In: El-Masri, S., Lambert, T., Quinn, J. (eds) Transitional Justice in Comparative Perspective. Memory Politics and Transitional Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34917-2_9
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