Confronting the Past: Justice After Transitions

Where indigenous peoples constitute a smaller share of the electorate, their recent inclusion denotes a more generalized opening of the political system to excluded and vulnerable sectors of society.

For more than two decades, President Yoweri Museveni has been building an authoritarian regime that answers closely to his personal will.

The impulse to have crimes against humanity investigated and punished, like the impulse behind “truth and reconciliation” commissions, is understandable. But legalism cannot supersede the hard and messy work of…