Transitional justice, a pending subject

Abstract

This article shows important aspects that have to do with Transitional Justice as a pending subject in Mexican Law for social development with a descriptive, critical and analytical methodology that refers to the design of the research, critical observation of problems and analysis of sources of information that will be carried out on the topic in the context of the contemporary Mexican political situation. Several relevant topics are presented with a pluralistic perspective based on traditional justice and the theory of law, with the purpose of exposing how this model of justice works and under what criteria in our country. The first topic is the definition of Transitional Justice, the prevailing need to apply it in Mexican law as well as a current overview of the usefulness of its development to establish a deductive reference framework that allows us to elucidate what the current situation is like. in the life of the nation. Following this, there is a brief and concise contribution on the problems involved in Transitional Justice, as well as the methodological solutions that are presented, as well as the main theoretical approaches to address its study. The way is then clear to expose the topic regarding transitional justice in our country today. In this way, the necessary issues to conclude will be exposed: Transitional justice is located between those who fight against it based on an ideological conception and, on the other side, those who adopt it as a means to implement or consolidate an ideological project of longer range. Transitional justice becomes a tool to generate a connection between justice and peace, generating equality between victims and perpetrators and forming scenarios of compensation and social reconciliation.