Maja Davidovic
The Law of ‘Never Again’: Transitional Justice and the Transformation of the Norm of Non-Recurrence
Davidovic, Maja
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Abstract
This article analyses the transformation of guarantees of non-recurrence (GNRs), the least developed pillar of transitional justice (TJ), and sets a legal and conceptual foundation of the norm for TJ theory and practice. It draws out key characteristics of GNRs including the norm’s various contents and contexts, stressing its exceptional future-oriented nature in international law. The article investigates conceptual origins of preventing non-recurrence in the early developments of TJ and the recent normative expansions undertaken by the UN Special Rapporteur. The main contributions of the article are establishing GNRs as normatively distinct in TJ and identifying transfers of local-level advocacy from Latin America to general norm creation. Finally, the article proposes a tension between decontextualizing the norm content to make it universally applicable and recent attempts to normatively expand the norm and improve its context-specificity, and discusses its potential consequences for TJ practice.
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Davidovic, M. (2021). The Law of ‘Never Again’: Transitional Justice and the Transformation of the Norm of Non-Recurrence. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 15(2), 386-406. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijab011
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Jun 18, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2021-07 |
Deposit Date | Aug 23, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | International Journal of Transitional Justice |
Print ISSN | 1752-7716 |
Electronic ISSN | 1752-7724 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 386-406 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijab011 |
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