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@GTrejo29, @tiscornia21 and I are excited & thankful for @DLind @mattyglesias & @zackbeauchamp ’s thoughtful and thorough discussion of our @JPR_journal article last week on @voxdotcom ’s The Weeds: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weeds/id1042433083?i=1000505147492 1/7
The attack on the US Capitol is a powerful reminder of the importance of holding government officials accountable to ensure the survival & quality of democracy 2/7
Our research shows that new democracies that hold the security apparatus accountable for gross human rights violations during authoritarian periods have significantly lower homicide levels than those that ignore their past. 3/7
We find that the combination of trials & truths commissions reduces violence by deterring government and security officials from deviating from the rule of law & removing those that committed gross human rights violations in the past. 4/7
By breaking state impunity, transitional justice processes can contribute in powerful ways to change state behavior – to prevent the unlawful use of state coercive power & to dissuade state security forces from colluding with criminals or defecting to the criminal underworld. 5/7
The adoption of mechanisms of accountability & extraordinary justice can crucially contribute to the development of peaceful democracies. Transitional justice does not solve every problem but it provides a framework to address a history of wrongdoing. 6/7
For more details about our argument & evidence see our @JPR_journal article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022343318793480?journalCode=jpra 7/7
