The Impact of the Truth and Dignity Commission on Peace in Tunisia

Abstract

Coming to terms with a legacy of large scale past abuses are one of the ways in which a country can avoid reoccurrence of such abuses. Tunisia through the course of its authoritarian leadership and more remarkably during the Arab Spring witnessed large scaled gross human rights violations committed both by government forces and protesters. In an attempt to come to terms with these large scaled human rights violations and reinstate of sustainable Peace in Tunisia, the country passed in 2013 an organic law on Transitional Justice which led to the creation of the Truth and Dignity Commission. This paper aims at analyzing the impact of this commission on peace in Tunisia. This paper thus explains what a Truth and Reconciliation commission is all about, analyses the impact it has had on the peace situation in Tunisia and goes examine the challenges faced the commission which limits its impact sustainable peace in Tunisia. This paper is based on emerging body of qualitative research. Data was gotten from scholarly articles, newspaper articles, report of practitioners and internet sources with the case of Tunisia being a focal point as large scaled human rights violations have been committed the country which still needs to be redressed.