The Reconciliation Policy Factory in the Mediterranean Area: Transitional Justice as a Model for Managing a Violent Past (Part I)

Abstract

The Maghreb space was and remains a specific one, conservative and little affected by European democratic processes, despite the fact that it has secular traditions with European states, especially with France, Spain and Italy. The last decades of the 20th century have radically changed the mentality of the class politics of this region, including thanks to external factors, but also internal ones, dictated by the visions of the new generation influenced by Western democratic values. However, the reconciliation process of the Maghreb countries’ societies cannot be viewed outside of the evolutionary processes that strongly influenced the respective political regimes and produced major effects on the progressive changes in the interest of the citizen. At the same time, we cannot examine the respective societies as a package, each of them having its own traditions, be it political, legal, cultural or social. In such conditions, the practice accumulated by the Maghreb countries in the implementation of transitional justice, the final objective being national reconciliation, is of increased interest for post-conflict societies, including the Republic of Moldova.