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  • 8 - Transitions, Transitional Justice, and Grand Corruption

  • from Part III - A Corruption Lens on Human Rights-Related Issues
  • Naomi Roht-Arriaza, University of California, San Francisco
  • Book:
    Fighting Grand Corruption
    Published online:
    03 April 2025
    Print publication:
    10 April 2025, pp 161-181

  • Summary

    This and the following chapter look at how infusing corruption into areas of human-rights related practice could make a difference. Here I consider transitions from dictatorship or internal armed conflict, and in particular how transitional justice has dealt with corruption. I focus on 3 emblematic transitions from different recent time periods: South Africa, Tunisia and Colombia, and add in some lessons from prior discussion of Guatemala. I find that failure to vet and control military intelligence officers, economic privatization and decentralization, and lack of attention to judicial selection and to auditing, tax and other controls contribute to the emergence of powerful alliances of corrupt officials, organized crime and predatory elites.