Acknowledgment of Perpetrators and Establishment of Truth

While many countries are facing difficulties in implementing transitional justice mechanisms, designed mainly to include different stakeholders in the process, in very few contexts have perpetrators been perceived as active participants who represent a potential resource to the process. This study examines to what extent the practice of plea bargaining with perpetrators of war crimes at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) contributed to the process of establishing the truth about past abuses and compared this with probably the most controversial aspect of work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa (TRC) - granting of amnesty to the persons responsible for the atrocities during apartheid.

Autorentext

Marijana Toma is a historian from Serbia. She has worked on documenting war crimes, oral history in post-conflict settings and transitional justice in the Western Balkans and internationally. Marijana holds a B.A in History from Belgrade University, Serbia and a MPhil in Political science from University of Cape Town, South Africa.