The Role of Experts in Dealing with the Past

In the last two decades of the 20th century, reckoning with the past has emerged as a compelling paradigm of international relations and domestic politics. There seems to be global agreement that dealing with the past is a chief requirement for peaceful relations between states as well as successful democratization in societies undergoing political transitions. With the dynamic expansion of the field of transitional justice, however, expertise in accounting of the past has been exposed to profound change. The domains of specialized knowledge have multiplied and, as a result, specialists from a wide variety of academic disciplines engage in the planning and implementation of transitional justice instruments. They do so in diverse functions, some of which are not considered part of their conventional competences.

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