AbstractThis article offers an empirically grounded, practitioner-focused analysis of the present-day search for Chile’s dictatorship-era disappeared. It treats this search as a transitional justice process within which rights and duties around truth, justice, reparations, and guarantees of non-repetition are explicitly or implicitly performed and (re)negotiated by, inter alia, state agents. Drawing on close observation of, and ongoing engagement with, the police, forensic, and legal actors who are involved in this search day to day, it provides insights into how these state actors understand their task, and manage related challenges and professional dilemmas. These include divergence in what is meant, and sought, when the terms ‘truth’ and ‘justice’ are used; the effect of generational replacement; and the necessary limits of victim-centredness within a criminal justice frame. Finally, the paper argues for greater attention to this type of closely observed, supply-side analysis of how, and by whom, states’ transitional justice duties are actually carried out. This is important, not least because such routinisation of transitional justice functions provides learning opportunities for the field, exposing incompatibilities, gaps or contradictions in or between core transitional justice tenets.

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“来自内部”的过渡时期司法：警方、法医和法律人员正在寻找失踪的智利人

摘要本文提供了一个以经验为基础、以实践者为中心的分析，对当今智利独裁时代消失的搜索进行了分析。它将这种搜索视为一个过渡性的正义过程，在该过程中，围绕真相、正义、赔偿和不重复保证的权利和义务由国家代理人明确或隐含地执行和（重新）谈判。通过对每天参与搜索的警察、法医和法律行为者的密切观察和持续参与，它提供了有关这些国家行为者如何理解他们的任务以及管理相关挑战和专业困境的见解。其中包括在使用“真相”和“正义”时的含义和寻求的分歧；代际更替的影响；以及刑事司法框架内以受害者为中心的必要限制。最后，本文主张更多地关注这种密切观察的供给侧分析，分析国家的过渡时期司法义务是如何以及由谁实际执行的。这很重要，尤其是因为过渡时期司法职能的这种常规化为该领域提供了学习机会，暴露了核心过渡时期司法原则之间或之间的不相容性、差距或矛盾。