Mainstream transitional justice theory, with its emphasis on liberal democratic values, thus fits relatively well for analyzing this type of cases. However, there are at least three major problems with these discourses. First, they tend to rely on an elite conception of decision-making, which means that sufficient attention has not always been paid to the question of how civil society and other actors perceive and try to influence transitional justice (Sharp 2013). Second, these discourses have often failed to