Chicken and Egg? Sequencing in Transitional Justice: The Case of Uganda (Report‪)‬

Introduction The processes of transitional justice and social reconstruction aim, broadly, to repair the social elements of a society. As I have written elsewhere, "transitional justice is engaged in helping societies move either from war to peace, or from a repressive or authoritarian regime to democracy, while dealing with resulting questions of justice, and what to do with social, political and economic institutions" (Hovil & Quinn 2005, 10).