The protection of human rights involves a multi-dimensional web of national and international mechanisms to monitor, judge, denounce, and coerce states, as well as to provide relief to victims.[7] As several West African countries transitioned from political regimes marked by violence, conflict, and human rights abuses, including Côte-d’Ivoire, many modeled their path toward transitional justice after South Africa, creating reconciliation commissions in the hope of determining root causes and societal consequences of past human rights violations.[2] However, within the scope of transitional justice, truth commissions tend to lean towards restorative rather than retributive justice models, often aimed at reconciling divided societies in the wake of conflict rather than holding those accused of human rights violations accountable.[8]