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International Journal of Transitional Justice Advance Access originally published online on January 31, 2009
International Journal of Transitional Justice 2009 3(1):49-68; doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijn043
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Reshaping Civil Society through a Truth Commission: Human Rights in Morocco's Process of Political Reform

Luke Wilcox*

* Graduate Program in International Relations and Religion, Boston University, USA. Email: lukewilcox10{at}gmail.com

1Observers of Moroccan politics have debated extensively the significance of the country's ‘top-down’ liberalization. At this point, there is no definitive verdict on palace-guided reforms, such as the recent Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER). Rather, these reforms have left an ambiguous legacy. This article uses the IER – a truth commission established in 2004 to examine past human rights abuses, compensate victims and ensure nonrepetition – as an analytical tool to understand how transitional justice carried out as a strategic measure of top-down liberalization can reshape the relationship between civil society and the state. While the monarchy's reform efforts in Morocco have not (as of yet) led to a civil society capable of supporting a stable democratic transition, the article argues that these efforts have increased civil society's expectations of gaining capacity and space to implement ethical goals and demands. Greater expectations, in turn, have altered how the monarchy must calculate its survival strategy.


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