The Search for Durable Peace through Transitional Justice and the Role of Collective Memory: A Look at Contemporary Tunisia

• Autor(a) principal: Peccia, Tiziano
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Meda, Rachele, Forte, Maria Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: fra
• Título da fonte: Dilemas : Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/dilemas/article/view/20818
• topic: transitional, justice, Tunisia, peace, memory; transitionnelle, justice, Tunisie, paix, mémoire; transicional, justiça, Tunísia, paz, memória

“Is transitional justice a linear process?” – This paper aims to provide an answer to this interrogative, outlining the impacts that transitional justice, as a complex and nonlinear process, can play in a “post-conflict” context, characterized by the vulnerability of certain social actors. This paper discusses some problematics related to the reconstruction of a “collective memory”, its associated bias and the perverse effects in distorting the “positive principles” and objectives that constitute the basis of transitional justice-related mechanisms. It describes the public policies of a contemporary Tunisia in transition as a key to understand the reactions of heterogeneous actors (ex. civil society, militaries, third parties/international actors) in facing institutional and social transitions on the short and long-term.