The Clash of Justice: A Study of Frictions and Global Mechanisms in the Transitional Justice Process of Kenya

Sammanfattning: Transitional justice is an essential part in any peacebuilding project. This study will aim to examine the relationship of the global and local spectrum in a transitional justice process and try to understand how the western adversarial systems erode and repress the local justice systems. The thesis will seek to study the empirical illustrations in a case study of the transitional justice process of Kenya. With the lens of friction and John P. Lederach’s definition of retributive and restorative justice, I aim to come closer to the understanding of the intricate relationship between the prominence of retributive and restorative justice. I will be able to come to conclusion of the ways retributive justice works to undermine and erode the workings of local healing and justice, and how this ultimately can affect the result of a peace process.