Judicial processes, he says, tend to distance those most affected.
"We will need to make our judicial processes more inquisitorial," he said.
There is no single voice for victims: some want truth; some want judicial processes.
In both those places flawed judicial processes at least raise questions about the horrors.
At the time, few organizations fully grasped how international judicial processes could come in direct conflict with providing humanitarian aid.
The judicial processes of democratic societies are open to the public and the principle of transparency prevails.
These days, she travels by bicycle, blogs on justice issues and has even designed a board game about judicial processes.
Now, in their very different political contexts, separate investigations and separate judicial processes have begun in both nations.
The lender said its "failures" did not "reflect any disrespect for our courts or the judicial processes".
We agreed that it is important that those responsible are held to account through proper judicial processes".
The reversal of fortune in Guatemala graphically illustrates the challenges that can stand in the way of local judicial processes.
