Balancing justice and long-term peace and security in a postconflict context is highly complex. This article discusses the challenges in Iraq’s post-IS (Islamic State) landscape. Based on a review of relevant Arabic, English and Persian academic scholarship on Islamic law and Islamic political science on accountability and transitional justice, it discusses what Islamic law dictates state authorities to do with detained suspects of atrocity crimes and terrorism and explores possibilities in Islamic law to balance justice and long-term peace and security. The article concludes that crimes against the state should, according to Islamic law, in principle lead to harsh punishments. However, that same body of law also provides for opportunities to adopt non-retributive alternatives, if this allows government to more swiftly handle the security crisis, re-establish public harmony and prevent further bloodshed in the future. The popular perception of the Iraqi people supporting retributive approaches could however pose an important barrier that could block any changes to Iraq’s current transitional justice approach.

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伊斯兰法与伊拉克后伊斯兰国环境中的正义与和平平衡

在冲突后背景下平衡正义与长期和平与安全是非常复杂的。本文讨论伊拉克后伊斯兰国（伊斯兰国）格局中的挑战。基于对伊斯兰法和伊斯兰政治学关于问责制和过渡司法的相关阿拉伯文、英文和波斯文学术学术研究的回顾，讨论了伊斯兰法要求国家当局如何处理被拘留的暴行罪和恐怖主义嫌疑人，并探讨了伊斯兰法的可能性平衡正义与长期和平与安全。文章的结论是，根据伊斯兰法律，危害国家的罪行原则上应导致严厉的惩罚。然而，同样的法律也提供了采用非报复性替代方案的机会，如果这能让政府更迅速地处理安全危机，重建公共和谐，防止未来进一步流血。然而，伊拉克人民支持报复性做法的普遍看法可能会构成一个重要障碍，可能会阻碍伊拉克目前的过渡司法做法的任何改变。