This book aims to provide a clear overview of the historical efforts to implement transitional justice. Such efforts aim to achieve justice through judicial and criminal prosecution of individual and collective perpetrators of crimes, offering reparations to victims, establishing memorials, and ensuring that the legacy of violations is fully addressed. In addition to criminal justice, transitional justice must address social and economic harms and ensure the non-repetition of violations through utilizing various institutions and laws to work towards these objectives.

Any society whose history is marked by gross human rights violations that have not been duly addressed will inevitably suffer from a lack of peace and social cohesion, which creates rifts between the people and the state. It may also sow doubts about whether the state is serious about maintaining the rule of law, which may eventually descend into a vicious cycle of widespread political, social, and cultural unrest. Therefore, transitional justice is a crucial matter for post-conflict societies and is the best means by which to build a new pluralistic society and overcome the grave violations of the past.