Contribution to Book
Transitional-Unconditional Justice? The Case of the Catholic Church of Albania
Churches, Memory and Justice in Post-Communism
(2021)
Abstract
Is burying the past a way of dealing with the past? Can Albania wage war against memory and against its history without doing justice to both memory and history? Is Albania ready to genuinely reckon with its communist past and deal with the crimes of the communist dictatorship? Is transitional justice still transitioning in Albania? The chapter will explore Albania’s limbo, its incomplete and unfinished plan for dealing with the past, its failure to recognize past human rights abuses, to apologize to the victims and pay reparations. The chapter focuses on the Catholic Church of Albania, a religious minority in the country, which constitutes 10% of the population and how transitional justice applies to this particular religious minority in a Muslim-majority country.
Keywords
- Albania,
- Roman Catholic Church,
- Martyrs,
- Transitional justice,
- Human rights,
- Reparations
Disciplines
Publication Date
2021
Editor
Lavinia Stan, Lucian Turcescu
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Series
Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
ISBN
9783030560638
Citation Information
Ines Murzaku. "Transitional-Unconditional Justice? The Case of the Catholic Church of Albania" ChamChurches, Memory and Justice in Post-Communism (2021) p. 135 - 154 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ines_murzaku/14/