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The Role Of Large Corporations Under Repressive Regime

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What is the role of large corporations under repressive regime? Do they engage in criminal activities? If yes, how should they be included in a process of transitional justice? The purpose of this work is to establish the links between the business world and transitional justice mechanisms. My purpose is more specifically to link the potential crimes perpetrated by corporations and the transitional justice mechanisms. This work does not link the transitional justice field to a defined field of research. Corporate responsibility or accountability is a concept coming from law and business literature. For the United Nations, transitional justice is the full range of processes and mechanisms associated with a society 's attempt to come to terms with a legacy of large-scale past abuses, in order to ensure accountability, serve justice and achieve reconciliation. The vast majority of the literature discussing "transitional justice" focuses on individuals or states, not collective organizations. Mechanisms of transitional justice are fourfold and include: a justice process, a reparation process, a truth process and a stabilization process. All these 4 processes are studied as either applying to individuals or state. However, in many cases the responsibility of individuals is related to the collective responsibility of a group or an organization other than the state. The objective of this work is to try to connect the role of businesses and transitional justice mechanisms. The

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