Trying Just Enough or Promising Too Much? The Problem-Capacity-Nexus in Tunisia’s Transitional Justice Process

Mariam Salehi

EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2022, vol. 16, issue 1, 98-116

Abstract: This article shows that for post-revolutionary Tunisia, a holistic approach to transitional justice – which aims to address a wide range of justice issues through a combination of measures – may lead to an expansion of mandates and consequently, to the overloading of transitional justice institutions. It therefore identifies a ‘problem-capacity-nexus’: While the expansive approach appears well-suited to relevant problems and the capacities of transitional justice professionals, it does not necessarily fit with the capacities of domestic institutions. Thus, transitional justice, while making efforts to address a broad range of relevant problems, has yet to find suitable avenues for actually doing so.

Keywords: transitional justice; Tunisia; truth commissions; socio-economic justice; capacities; mandates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2021.1882756

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