Human Development & Public Engagement: Making Transitional Justice Work for the Arab Spring

by Maryam Jamshidi

In the last year, the Middle East and North Africa have witnessed the toppling of long-standing regimes and the ouster of once untouchable dictators. In the midst of these events, many regional countries have been confronted by issues of transitional justice, in the form of criminal trials for government officials, past and present, ac…