Transitional Justice in Brazil

This book is a multidisciplinary effort, using legal, philosophical, historical, sociological and political approaches, to understand Brazilian transitional justice, the historical events that triggered the civil-military coup, the political dispute over the enactment of the Amnesty Law and how these historical advances and setbacks in an ideological conflict culminated in the delivery of the Final Report of the National Truth Commission, the most recent step in Brazilian transitional justice. This is a modest effort to understand how historical events are directly linked to the construction of transitional justice and how the actors involved dispute the truth through political memory, in order to understand "justice".