The influence of transitional justice process on the freedom of the media within pst-conflict societies; Comparing the maximalist, minimalist, moderate, and holistic approach in ther effectiveness on improving the
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2014-12-11
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en
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Within this Master Thesis I aim to answer the question; to what extent is the freedom of media in post-conflict societies influenced by transitional justice processes? The research that I present synthesizes current theories on transitional justice, testing whether transitional justice mechanisms can affect the freedom of media within post-conflict societies. I do so by evaluating four different approaches to transitional justice mechanisms: the maximalist approach, which favours human rights trials as a transitional justice mechanism; the minimalist approach, which favours amnesties as a transitional justice mechanism; the moderate approach, which favours truth commissions as a transitional justice mechanism; and the holistic approach, which claims it is best to implement multiple transitional justice mechanisms simultaneously.
Using single and multiple linear regression analysis, I establish that there is a link between transitional justice mechanisms and the improvement of the freedom of media in post-conflict societies, concluding that the democratization process that takes place simultaneously cannot explain this link. I find initial evidence for the argument that human rights trials and truth commissions are the transitional justice mechanisms that explain the existence of the link between transitional justice mechanisms and the improvement of the freedom of media within post-conflict societies. However, more large-sample research should be done regarding the effectiveness of the different transitional justice mechanisms.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen