This article examines the impact of institutionalisation of governance, bureaucracy and rule of law on the timeframes employed for transitional justice. It argues that the urgency of transitional justice has consistently given way to temporally extended justice projects as state strength permits revision of initial leniency in terms of truth, criminal accountability and vetting, while state weaknesses compel the delay of projects pending institutional development or consolidation through long-term peacebuilding missions. Furthermore, a more recent focus on transformative social change that looks at economic root causes of conflict would require states and policy-makers to use a longer, multigenerational timeframe for action. In the absence of theoretical work on how these multi-generational commitments might be realised, this article draws on literature in the field of development to outline a plausible model for how transitional justice, peacebuilding and development are dynamically realised over time. It argues that for transitional justice to be even minimally transformative, it must be embedded in top-down developmental institutions of government sufficiently robust to implement recommendations. It must also be embedded in bottom-up developmental coalitions whose everyday political contests can shape the structure and effects of these institutions over time.

本文考察了治理制度化、官僚主义和法治对过渡时期司法所采用的时间框架的影响。它认为，过渡时期司法的紧迫性一直让位于时间延长的司法项目，因为国家实力允许在真相、刑事责任和审查方面修改最初的宽大处理，而国家弱点迫使项目推迟，等待机构发展或长期巩固。 - 长期建设和平任务。此外，最近对着眼于冲突的经济根源的变革性社会变革的关注将要求国家和政策制定者使用更长的、跨代的时间框架来采取行动。在缺乏关于如何实现这些多代承诺的理论工作的情况下，本文借鉴发展领域的文献，概述了如何随着时间的推移动态实现过渡正义、建设和平和发展的合理模型。它认为，要使过渡司法具有最小的变革性，它必须嵌入自上而下的政府发展机构中，足够强大以实施建议。它还必须嵌入自下而上的发展联盟，随着时间的推移，这些联盟的日常政治竞赛可以塑造这些机构的结构和效果。它必须嵌入自上而下的政府发展机构，足够强大以实施建议。它还必须嵌入自下而上的发展联盟，随着时间的推移，这些联盟的日常政治竞赛可以塑造这些机构的结构和效果。它必须嵌入自上而下的政府发展机构，足够强大以实施建议。它还必须嵌入自下而上的发展联盟，随着时间的推移，这些联盟的日常政治竞赛可以塑造这些机构的结构和效果。