In all cases, please ensure that you illustrate your answer using examples from a minimum of 3 countries.
Choose an essay title:
1. Critically discuss the pros and cons of using prosecutions as a means of delivering justice for perpetrators and victims.
2. Critically discuss the advantages and disadvantages of amnesty as a means of promoting transitional justice.
3. To what extent are international criminal justice mechanisms the courts of last resort?
4. To what extent are truth commissions primarily a mechanism for achieving victim-centred goals?
5. Critically discuss the extent to which community-level initiatives can promote justice, truth, and reconciliation?
6. Critically discuss the challenges facing governments using reparations programmes to provide restorative justice for victims.
7. To what extent are transitional justice mechanisms able to responding to crimes of sexual and gender-based violence?
8. Critically discuss the pros and cons of using commemoration and historical memory in transitional justice. It must demonstrate the achievement of Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, and 4 which are: Identify the different approaches to transitional justice and the struggle for human rights at national, regional and international levels in the selected countries. Critically comment on the mechanisms employed in the pursuit of truth, justice, reconciliation and commemoration for crimes against humanity in the selected countries. Critically discuss the effectiveness of a selected transitional justice mechanism. Critically discuss how factors (political, institutional, social, cultural, and legal) can facilitate or hinder the enjoyment of human rights in the selected countries.
