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‘Settling Accounts’ Revisited: Reconciling Global Norms With Local Agency, Diane F. Orentlicher
‘Settling Accounts’ Revisited: Reconciling Global Norms With Local Agency, Diane F. Orentlicher
Diane Orentlicher
In the mid- to late-1980s, the discourse of transitional justice was shaped above all by the experience of countries in Latin America, where military forces continued to exercise autonomous power even after ceding formal authority to democratically elected governments. In this setting, while human rights professionals agreed that fledgling democracies should undertake prosecutions in accordance with their international legal obligations, they were divided over the question of whether further development of international obligations in respect of punishment was desirable. Nor was it clear what, precisely, international law already required. Writing in the early 1990s, the author of this essay concluded …