Transitional justice, or as LAW prefers to call it, transformative justice, describes what countries emerging from conflict and repression undertake to address violations too widespread to be handled by the ordinary courts.

That may require reparations, legislative or policy reform, truth telling, or significant shifts in public attitudes. What it always requires is that the process is locally driven and genuinely inclusive. Communities experience conflict differently, both in the violations they suffer and in the long term consequences they carry, and LAW works to ensure that women, young people, minorities and survivor communities are meaningfully involved at every level rather than consulted at the end.