Some of the new enthusiasm for international laws and courts crystallised around the idea of ‘transitional justice’, and campaigners established an International Center for Transitional Justice in New York in 2001. The organization advocates measures to ‘redress the legacies of massive human rights abuses’ in countries ‘transitioning’ from conflict or state repression. It promotes criminal prosecutions, reparations for victims, institutional reforms, and truth commissions to address victims’ rights and ‘to see the perpetrators punished, to know the truth, and to receive reparations’.
