Electoral Violence and Transitional Justice – Getting Away with Murder

This paper will focus on the key issues of how to handle transitional justice issues that involve electoral violence. Violence, including electoral violence, often threatens to destabilise transitions to democracy, and the way in which democratising states deal with issues of transitional justice an important determinant of whether the democratic process remains on track. The paper will undertake an analysis of how these questions were handled in three cases, including Kenya (2007), East Timor (1999) and Cote D’Ivoire (2014-15).