%0 Journal Article
%T Transitional justice as a learning process: A contribution from the domesticating human rights model
%A Fid¨¨le Ingiyimbere
%J Philosophy & Social Criticism
%@ 1461-734X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0191453718820899
%X In recent years, transitional justice (TJ) has become such an important field that it is believed to have become an international norm. Beginning as an initiative to help countries recovering from dictatorship in Latin America and communism regimes in East Europe, where the retributive justice paradigm was predominant, today it has gone beyond its birth place and integrated the restorative and reparative dimensions to its practice. Despite this development, some voices have criticized TJ of hiding an ideological agenda of promoting liberal democracy, focusing only on the legal dimension which favors political and civil rights, ignoring economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as the social and political contexts in which conflicts arise. The critics also argue that transitional practice assumes a clear-cut opposition between the victim and perpetrator who can be detrimental to its goal of achieving peace and reconciliation. In face of these critiques, this article explores whether the domestication of human rights theory can contribute to answering them. By domestication of human rights, I mean the process through which human rights are incorporated into local contexts to deal with human rights violations. Thus, the article is structured by three main points. First, I elaborate the different critiques against TJ; secondly, I present the domestication of human rights theory so that, in third place, I examine whether the latter can help TJ address the criticisms
%K criticisms of TJ
%K domesticating model
%K human rights
%K subsidiarity principle
%K transitional justice
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0191453718820899