A colabora şi a pedepsi. Democraţie şi justiţie de tranziţie în România
To Collaborate and to Punish. Democracy and transitional justice in Romania

Summary/Abstract: In all ex-communist states the issue of citizens collaborating with secret services proved to be very sensitive, as it discusses the moral identity of individuals and, step by step, that of larger communities. The resolution of the collaborators’ issue followed in countries such as the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania the German model of „Gauck Office” (BStU). In Romania, it witnessed significant transformations following decisions of the Constitutional Court, which altered the role of CNSAS (2008, 2012). The study is focused in two main topics. The first refers to the institutional analysis of CNSAS, aiming at several sub-topics: i) institutional transformations from the 1999-2013 period, from the perspective of democratization through transitional justice; ii) defining types of “collaboration” with the Securitate, according to actors categories, following legislative changes; iii) the impact of the Constitutional Court decisions upon CNSAS accomplishment of evidences concerning the statute of Securitate “collaborator”. The second topic refers to the effects of collaborating with the Securitate in the public opinion. To this end, some cases will be analyzed, in order to emphasize the plural and contradictory character of public perception concerning collaboration with the Securitate.

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