This thesis discusses the impact of cultural memory and local transitional justice mechanisms on national, regional, and international transitional justice mechanisms. Through analysing the impact...Show moreThis thesis discusses the impact of cultural memory and local transitional justice mechanisms on national, regional, and international transitional justice mechanisms. Through analysing the impact of murals and memorials that emerged after the exhumations of mass graves in Plan de Sánchez, Guatemala on local activism, this thesis finds that active memory during transition can lead to local actors taking charge of their transition. This occurred in Plan de Sánchez through taking legal issues that weren't being addressed on the national level to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a court case that fuelled changes to both regional and international approaches to transitional justice.Show less
