<em>Contested Versions of Collective Memory in Postindependence Eritrea</em>

“Justice Futures”: Forensic Investigation and the Potential for Transformation in Eritrea

“…But when the future becomes the present, how will Eritreans reckon with the past? Although members of the opposition-in-exile, as well as global Eritrean human rights proponents and their allies, have been debating and organising with respect to future forms of reconciliation and accountability in a post-PFDJ Eritrea, no well-defi ned framework for transitional justice has yet emerged (Redeker Hepner 2020;Mekonnen 2009;Mekonnen 2013) with the exception of some initial blueprints, such as that of the Eritrean Law Society (ELS), shared in an international conference organised in April 2019 by the London-based Eritrea Focus. Th e very temporality of the concept of transition proves problematic, however; it suggests that societies arrive at a discernible moment or breaking point that marks the liminal, or transitional, phase.…”