Inter-American Court of Human Rights' reparation judgments ...

36 Revista IIDH[Vol. 49individual and collective elaboration of the crimes against humanityof the state terrorism. 15International tribunals have political and juridical as well as ethicalresponsibility to fulfil their goals and missions. Their objective mightbe to reinstate subjective and cultural order in societies. Internaljustice should not, of course, be exempt from those same functions andresponsibilities. Indeed, balancing structural conditions inside theirown political and symbolic power is the first challenge for achievingsuccessful reparation processes.Healing and the importance and utilityof the interdisciplinary approachesHealing is an attempt to restore the relationship of the individual withthe reality, reviving the capacity to link with other people and the world,as well as their capacity to plan the future using a better self-knowledgeand their reality. 16However, healing rarely goes into legal spaces. Mental health hasbeen relegated by other disciplines and by itself to the specific, clinicaland individual treatments. Justice holds the highest mandate out ofall the omnipotent and reparative faculties with their representatives.Interdisciplinary communication has not always functioned. At thesame time, after historical reconciliation processes, different sciencesare not always ready to continue working together with satisfactoryresults.Justice reappears in the idea that its aim is to heal victims of violenceand to reconcile opposing groups. But at the same time, formal justicesometimes has recurred in the discussion of healing as a potential barrieror provocation for renewed trauma. Still, there have been many detractorsof the initiative of including therapeutic aspects in the work of international15 Guillis, G., “El concepto de reparación simbólica”. Equipo de Salud Mentaldel CELS, Psychological Assistance at the inter-American system, IIHRProject, San José, Costa Rica, 2005, p. 18. (Author’s translation.)16 Lira E. and E. Weinstein, “Psicoterapia y represión política. Prefacio”, in:Instituto Latinoamericano de Salud Mental y Derechos Humanos, Reparación,derechos humanos y salud mental. Ediciones Chile América CESOC, Santiago,Chile, 1996. (Author’s translation.)