Keynote Speech on the History of Transitional Justice

Organized as part of the research group “Universalism and Particularism in European Contemporary History,” the international workshop “Universalism or Particular Interests? A Historical Reassessment of the Ad Hoc Criminal Tribunals and the International Criminal Court in the 1990s and 2000s” took place from July 2 to 4 at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In his keynote speech “The Universal and the Particular in Dealing with Past Gross Human Rights Violations in the 1990s: An Approach to the Historicization of ‘Transitional Justice’,” Stephan Scheuzger presented an approach to historicizing the field of reflection and action known as transitional justice, which since the 1990s has also served as a key theoretical and conceptual foundation for the judicial handling of crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes.

Caption: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.