Despite an increase in scholarly efforts to evaluate transitional justice (TJ) programmes, there is little agreement over what TJ is, what effects it could be expected to have, or how TJ mechanisms should be judged. This article contributes to the literature on TJ evaluation by showing how differences in understanding of the nature and value of the ‘justice’ in TJ affect what is evaluated and how findings are interpreted. The article parses the values inherent in TJ evaluations (retributive, restorative and transformative justice, valuable for intrinsic or instrumental reasons) in order to think through the ways in which different value orientations lead to different appraisals. A broad sample of literature on the TJ programme in Sierra Leone is analyzed according to the value orientations it tends towards. The analysis finds that evaluations of Sierra Leonean TJ can be found displaying each of the six value orientations, with no agreement about the success of the TJ programme from within orientations, let alone across them. Additionally, it is argued that scholars and researchers are rarely explicit about their orientations, and there is insufficient consideration of the political implications of different value positions for prescriptions for future TJ programmes.

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评估评估者：过渡时期的正义与价值观的较量

尽管评估过渡司法 (TJ) 计划的学术努力有所增加，但在 TJ 是什么、它可能产生的影响或应如何判断 TJ 机制方面几乎没有达成一致。本文通过展示对 TJ 中“正义”的性质和价值的理解差异如何影响被评估的内容以及如何解释调查结果，为 TJ 评估的文献做出了贡献。文章解析了TJ评价的内在价值（报复性、恢复性和变革性正义，内在或工具性原因有价值），以思考不同价值取向导致不同评价的方式。根据其趋向的价值取向分析了关于塞拉利昂 TJ 计划的广泛文献样本。分析发现，可以发现对塞拉利昂 TJ 的评估显示了六个价值取向中的每一个，对于 TJ 计划从内部取向的成功没有达成一致，更不用说跨越它们了。此外，有人认为，学者和研究人员很少明确他们的方向，也没有充分考虑不同价值立场对未来 TJ 计划处方的政治影响。