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Editorial Note
* President, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, USA. Email: jmendez@ictj.org
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The very fact that an international scholarly journal dedicated to transitional justice exists suggests that there is no dispute that ‘transitional justice’ is recognized as a field, distinct from related disciplines and human endeavors. Yet, this field's emergence is recent enough that it is not easy to provide an accurate description of its contours and scope. The fact that ‘TJ’ has become a widely used term of art is also evidence of its recognition as a field. The term can be misleading, however, if it suggests a set of principles and measures to be applied only in the narrow political circumstances known as a ‘transition.’ There is also the question of whether the adjective ‘transitional’ is intended to qualify the nature of justice to be applied in those specific circumstances. In practice, the principles and measures that we associate with TJ are applied or invoked in many widely divergent situations,
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TJ and the Claims Its Practitioners Make |
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