TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
- Course
- ILAW421 - TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
- Department
- International Law - English - Undergraduate
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 5
- T+P+L
- 2 + 2 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- Dr. HAKAN ŞONYA
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
Course Description
This course focuses upon progressive practices specifically designed to provide support for the victims who were subjected to human rights violations, war crimes and inhumane misconducts of specific groups and states. The course studies methods of restoring and improving the well-being of these victims by upholding notions of accountability, human rights, and responsibility. The course also studies the emergence of the concept of transitional justice by considering the Nuremberg Trials that prosecuted the Nazi Officials of the Third Reich. The course, finally, analyses the relationship between transitional justice and notions of rule of law and democracy, and issues of trust between citizens and the state.
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
Evaluation Tools (Active Term)
| Item | Type | Weight (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Midterm | Midterm | 40 |
| Final | Final | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
Course outcomes
No course outcomes have been defined yet.
Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to the Transitional Justice concept |
| Week 2 | The concepts of Human Rights and Violations |
| Week 3 | Samuel Huntington’s Waves of Democracy, the interwar years and the WW2 |
| Week 4 | The aims and implementation of Transitional Justice |
| Week 5 | The genealogy of the concept |
| Week 6 | The Holistic Approach |
| Week 7 | Prosecutions or the Notion of Accountability |
| Week 8 | Fact-Finding & Truth-Recovery processes |
| Week 9 | Reconciliation |
| Week 10 | Institutional Reforms |
| Week 11 | Reparation |
| Week 12 | Other Transitional Justice Measures |
| Week 13 | The Fourth Phase of Transitional Justice |
| Week 14 | What is Transformative Justice? |
| Week 15 | Transitional Justice as a global phenomenon |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Transitional Justice In The Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth Versus Justice. Cambridge University Press
Learning Outcomes
- L01 Familiarize (3) students with the basic concepts and principles of Transitional Justice SOLO 3
- L02 Understand (3) the main mechanisms and approaches of Transitional Justice. SOLO 3
- L03 Understand (3) the specific needs of different post-conflict societies. SOLO 3
- L04 Understand (3) complexity of post-conflict rebuilding of the society. SOLO 3
- L05 Understand (3) obstacles for rebuilding of the post-conflict societies and the ways of overcoming of those obstacles. SOLO 3
Program Outcomes
No program outcomes have been defined.
Po-Lo Matrix
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