Dealing with the past and the path to transitional justice

A comparative analysis of South Korea and Albania

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ID6040803
AuthorsJetnor Kasmi (0000-0002-6477-8976, International Commission on Missing Persons, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume16
Issue1
Pages57-77
Publication date2024-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Politics & Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1943-0787 • E-ISSN: 1943-0779
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aspp.12727
OpenAlexW4391491389
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

This article compares the authoritarian regimes of early South Korea and Albania, identifying historical anecdotes of state authoritarianism that resulted in state‐led crimes and human rights violations. It identifies the historical connections between the establishment and maintenance of authoritarian regimes, as well as the consequences of such meticulous upkeep, by comparing and contrasting the efforts made in dealing with the past and lustration, as well as their significance for peace and stability. We compare the South Korean and Albanian cases from these perspectives to find similarities and differences. By comparing two different countries with similar authoritarian pasts, this article analyzes the efforts of both countries towards transitional justice, and unified rhetoric across the political spectrum for lustration and punishment of past crimes, and discovered that when it comes to practice, these laws tend to be unilateral and were strongly challenged in courts and used as political tools against ideological opponents

Authoritarianism · Criminology · Democracy · Economic Justice · Human rights · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Punishment (psychology · Rhetoric · Sociology · State (computer science · Transitional justice · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology

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