Taking stock of Syria's Approach to Transitional Justice

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dc.abstract.enIn December 2024, in a sweeping military campaign, the HTS overran several government strongholds in Syria and took Damascus, installing a transitional government and creating new institutions. According to Huntington’s model, this was a replacement transition which did not require the new rulers to negotiate a transitional agreement with the incumbent government. In this article, we argue that the HTS leadership nevertheless cannot freely choose among the available options of transitional justice, but instead is constrained by external and domestic factors, which are already about to push the new government into the direction of restorative and symbolic transitional justice measures. In view of Syria’s dire economic conditions, redistributive victim-centered justice is just as unlikely as harsh and broad punishment for perpetrators of past human rights abuses. The latter would be severely hampered by the new rulers’ rule-of-law commitments and the weakness of the post-al-Asad judiciary.
dc.affiliationWydział Nauk Społecznych w Warszawie
dc.affiliationInstytut Nauk Społecznych
dc.contributor.authorNabożna, Karolina
dc.contributor.authorBachmann, Klaus
dc.date.access2026-02-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-19T06:53:17Z
dc.date.available2026-02-19T06:53:17Z
dc.date.created2025-12-19
dc.date.issued2026-01-20
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dc.description.sdgNoSDGsAreRelevantForThisPublication
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.identifier.eissn1571-8123
dc.identifier.issn1567-536X
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/2190
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://brill.com/view/journals/icla/icla-overview.xml
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki o polityce i administracji
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki o kulturze i religii
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.rights.questionNo_rights
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dc.subject.enSyria
dc.subject.enTransitional Justice
dc.subject.endouble transition
dc.subject.enHTS
dc.subject.enrestorative and symbolic justice
dc.swps.sciencecloudnosend
dc.titleTaking stock of Syria's Approach to Transitional Justice
dc.title.journalInternational Criminal Law Review
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle