Pepperdine Policy Review Volume 11 Article 7 5-10-2019 Justice in the Philippines: A Checkered Past with Implications for the Future Spencer Roush Pepperdine University, School of Public Policy,
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[email protected]. Justice in the Philippines: A Checkered Past with Implications for the Future By: Spencer Roush Abstract Human rights issues remain commonplace throughout the world, but the transition from authoritarian to democratic regimes often exposes these abuses. Once a new democracy is established, the entire country is forced to reckon with abuses from the past. The different routes that countries take in these instances represent the growing field of transitional justice. Transitional justice means different things to different people, but many would agree that one of its goals is that countries should make attempts to deter similar historical abuses from reoccurring in the future. This paper uses the Philippines as a case study to look at the way transitional justice was manifest after the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.