Test on Transitional Justice: Principles and Practice

Question 1: The primary goal of Restorative Justice is to solely focus on punishing offenders.

A. Ano

B. Ne

Explanation: The goal of Restorative Justice is material and symbolic repair, responsibility-taking, and social reintegration, rather than simply punishment.

Question 2: Which of the following statements accurately describe key characteristics of the Fourth Generation of Transitional Justice?

A. It primarily emphasizes individual criminal responsibility and retributive justice.

B. It moves towards locally grounded, participatory, and holistic models.

C. It focuses on confronting structural and root causes of conflict, such as social and economic inequalities.

D. It maintains standardized, top-down approaches to post-conflict situations.

Explanation: The Fourth Generation of Transitional Justice moves away from standardized, top-down approaches, toward locally grounded, participatory, and holistic models. It focuses on confronting the structural and root causes of conflict, including social and economic inequalities, and views Transitional Justice as a tool for deep social transformation. It goes beyond narrow ideas of punishment and individual criminal responsibility. Therefore, options 1 and 2 are correct. Options 0 and 3 describe characteristics that the Fourth Generation moves away from or that are more aligned with earlier generations.

Question 3: The JEP's Macro-Case Selection and Prioritisation Model views territorial and thematic cases as competing alternatives for investigation, rather than complementary approaches.

A. Ano

B. Ne

Explanation: The JEP's Macro-Case Selection and Prioritisation Model uses territorial and thematic cases as two complementary criteria for identifying patterns of systematic violence.

Question 4: The Justice and Peace (Justicia y Paz) system functioned as a special transitional criminal justice system in Colombia.

A. Ano

B. Ne

Explanation: The study materials explicitly state that 'Justice and Peace (Justicia y Paz) was a Special transitional criminal justice system in Colombia'.

Question 5: The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia is characterized by a strongly restorative orientation. Based on the study materials, which of the following are explicitly stated as goals of the JEP?

A. Achieving integral reparation.

B. Solely relying on punitive sanctions.

C. Promoting reconciliation.

D. Reconstruction of the social fabric damaged by decades of violence.

Explanation: The study materials explicitly state that the JEP's goals include: 'integral reparation, reconciliation, and reconstruction of the social fabric damaged by decades of violence.' It also notes that the legal framework emphasizes 'restorative and reparative measures, rather than relying only on punitive sanctions,' which means 'solely relying on punitive sanctions' is not a goal.