Between Past and Future

Transitional justice is an emerging field in political theory and related disciplines that examines the way that societies overcome a history of human rights abuses and establish a sound foundation for democracy and the rule of law. The field has seen a burst of scholarly activity in the last ten years or so, in the wake of the transitions to democracy from authoritarian regimes in Latin America and elsewhere, from communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and from the racist regime in South Africa. Transitional justice concerns a wide range of vexing moral and political issues involved in reckoning with the past so that the new regime may be both stable and just. Some of these issues do not usually arise under a stable democratic regime, so Western scholars for a long time ignored them. Now

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