“Armenian Lawyers’ Association” NGO has been implementing human rights activities and promoting reform in various public spheres since its inception, initiated the development and publication of this report.
The main objective of the report is to present the essence of transitional justice, its applicability in Armenia, the existing international experience, tools, mechanisms and institutes with successful and unsuccessful examples in different countries, as well as to identify in comparative and analytical ways the most effective applicable models with minimal risks in case of implementation of transitional justice in Armenia.
This report provides answers to questions such as:
- What is transitional justice and what are the mechanisms of its application?
- What prerequisites are needed for the application of the mechanisms of transitional justice in the country?
- Is there a need to introduce a system of transitional justice in Armenia taking into account the economic, social, political and legal processes that have taken place since the independence of the country?
Further, the successful and failed examples of international experience have been studied and then recommendations on mechanisms for the application of transitional justice in Armenia based on them are presented.
The recommendations in the report have been presented taking into account the velvet revolution in the country, as well as the political will of the ruling political power in the post-revolutionary period, to introduce the mechanisms of transitional justice that would exclude the risks of having a corrupt and monopolized economic environment and restore confidence in justice and judicial power.
The report is available here.