Zusammenfassung
Versöhnung und Rechtsstaatlichkeit bilden zentrale Elemente im Prozess der Transitional Justice. Allerdings wurde lange Zeit davon ausgegangen, dass sich die beiden Konzepte in diesem Kontext gegenseitig ausschließen, indem das Streben nach Versöhnung, die konsequente Anwendung strafrechtlicher Prinzipien verbietet. Es werden anhand konkreter Fallbeispiele Versuche aufgezeigt, die beiden Konzepte in Mechanismen der Transitional Justice zu vereinen, indem vor allem Wahrheitskommissionen unterschiedliche Funktionen zugesprochen wurden. Auf internationaler Ebene wurde daraus ein komplementärer Ansatz entwickelt, der durch die Anwendung mehrerer Mechanismen der Transitional Justice, die gegenseitige Stärkung von Versöhnung und Rechtsstaatlichkeit propagierte. Wie der Aufarbeitungsprozess in Osttimor demonstriert, birgt dieser Ansatz jedoch neue Probleme und Risiken, indem er zur Diskreditierung beider Konzepte führen kann. Daraus lässt sich schließen, dass entgegen der normativ geführten Debatte um Transitional Justice, deren Mechanismen nur Initialzündungen für rechtsstaatliche Reformen und Versöhnungsprozesse sein können, die von den Folgeregimen über einen langen Zeitraum weiter getragen werden müssen.
Die Entwicklung zweier sich ausschließender Konzepte zu zwei sich ergänzenden Zielen
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Ottendörfer, E. (2015). Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Versöhnung im osttimoresischen Aufarbeitungsprozess. In: Mihr, A., Pickel, G., Pickel, S. (eds) Handbuch Transitional Justice. Springer NachschlageWissen. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02994-4_3-1
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