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Learning from Civil Society Actors in Turkey: Using Transitional Justice in an Ongoing Conflict Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Nisan Alici
∞ This article examines the role of civil society in the implementation of transitional justice in Turkey’s ongoing Kurdish conflict, which is characterized by historical state violence and a lack of official transitional justice processes. Drawing on 24 interviews, the research reveals the evolution of civil society engagement from its peak during the 2013–2015 peace process to its decline under increasing
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Reflecting on Race, Racism and Transitional Justice Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Matiangai Sirleaf, E Tendayi Achiume
∞ Following the racial justice uprisings of 2020, our world order continues to reel from the consequences of the systemic racism that is the product of colonial projects past and present. In this introduction to the International Journal for Transitional Justice’s (IJTJ) Special Issue on Race, Racism and Transitional Justice, we ruminate on key disciplinary critiques of the bounds of transitional justice
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Truth Commissions and the Prevention of Targeted Mass Killings Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Kerry Whigham, Trey Billing, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira
While transitional justice endeavors aim to help countries come to terms with violent pasts, policymakers and practitioners often claim that transitional justice mechanisms help prevent future violence as well. No cross-national research has tested this claim, however. This article begins to fill this gap by examining whether one of the most frequently used mechanisms of transitional justice, the truth
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Advancing Local US Transitional Justice Initiatives: A University Partnership Alongside Descendant Communities Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Linda J Mann
This article suggests that the ongoing denial by the USA federal government of historical human rights infractions against African Americans and people of African descent led to a proliferation of local transitional justice efforts. Drawing from a university-driven transitional justice project, this article offers an analysis of local initiatives and highlights one of its six transitional justice collaborations
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‘Taking Responsibility for the White Collective’: Implicated Subjects and Transformative Justice in the United States Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Bretton J McEvoy
∞ Transitional justice largely ignores that majority of actors who, though not directly responsible for violence, are structurally implicated in systems of injustice that (re)produce violence. Their absence is incompatible with the normative goals of the ‘transformative justice’ agenda, which include targeting the causes of (structural) violence, a project decidedly shaped by the presence of implicated
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Discovering What Is Already Known: The Afro-Colombian Ancestral Justice System before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Nina Bries Silva
∞ For decades, Afro-Colombians have been ignored by Colombian society and its legal system. While the Colombian Constitution recognized the indigenous special jurisdiction, Afro-Colombian ancestral and traditional systems of justice were never acknowledged. The latter were further weakened by the armed internal conflict the country endured for more than half a century. In 2016, the Final Peace Agreement
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Historical Violence and Public Attitudes towards Justice: Evidence from the United States Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Jamil S Scott, Daniel Solomon, Kelebogile Zvobgo
This article brings transitional justice scholarship to bear on the case of racial violence in the United States. We investigate how knowledge of racial terror lynchings shapes Black Americans’ support for symbolic and material transitional justice measures. We administer a survey with an embedded experiment to Black residents in Maryland, a US transitional justice pioneer. We provide select respondents
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Racial (In)justice in Brazil: Reconstructing the Subaltern Memories of Poor and Black Women in the Brazilian Dictatorship Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Pablo Pamplona, Beatriz Besen, Kaya de Wolff, Soraia Ansara, Luis Galeão-Silva
The Brazilian military-corporate dictatorship faced the resistance and mobilization of several marginalized groups. In this article, we reconstruct the subaltern memories of Black and poor women from the outskirts of São Paulo who participated in Christian Base Communities and the Cost-of-Living Movement, and we show how their mobilization was supported by social movements across the country. Despite
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Transitional Justice and Redress for Racial Injustices against Marginalized Minorities: Lessons from Indigenous Twa People in Post-Genocide Rwanda Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Ezechiel Sentama
∞ This article addresses the question of how countries respond to racial injustices through transitional justice. It draws on the case of Rwanda and explores the experiences of the marginalized indigenous Twa minorities with transitional justice implemented after the 1994 genocide through the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission and Gacaca courts. The lessons from Rwanda highlight the limitations
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Imagining Collective Reincorporation: Perceptions of Colombia’s Novel Approach to Peacebuilding Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Colleen Alena O’Brien
In Colombia, the FARC and the Colombian government have adopted a new term, ‘reincorporation,’ to refer to the FARC’s simultaneous and collective transition into society, in contrast to past programmes in which ex-combatants individually transitioned back into civilian society (generally known as ‘reintegration’). This collectivist approach is unprecedented in postconflict societies. In this Note from
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The Complementarity Paradigm: Tracing the Transitional Justice Blueprint in the Inter-American System of Human Rights Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Anamaría Muñoz Rincón
∞ The promotion of ‘home-grown’ approaches to transitional justice is a powerful trope animating the field, encouraging local ownership of transitional justice processes, and refusing ‘one size fits all’ formulas. I challenge this account by exploring how the obligations resulting from anti-impunity’s advent yield only one particular institutional design that seems compatible with obligations under
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Re-Politicizing the Traumatic Body through Art: Guillermo Núñez, Ariel Dorfman and the Political Transition in Chile Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Erdem Çolak
This article aims to explore the potential of art to create alternatives to hegemonic narratives in post-traumatic societies and the role of art in the re-politicization of both the artist and the audience. It discusses the role of art in constructing the ethics and memory of Never Again through the visual artworks of Guillermo Núñez (1930) and Ariel Dorfman’s (1942) play Death and the Maiden (1990)
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Human Rights Activism and Transitional Justice Advocacy in Northern Ireland Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Anna Bryson, Kieran McEvoy
∞ This article offers a critical assessment of efforts to address the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict. We begin with an overview of government-led initiatives since 1998 and then reflect on three underpinning themes: justice, accountability and the tilt towards impunity; the shift from ‘truth’ to ‘information’ recovery; and the instrumentalization of history. We then offer a reflexive assessment
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The ‘Domino Effect’ of Ongoing Violence on Transitional Justice: The Case of Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Rosario Figari Layus, Juliette Vargas Trujillo
∞ This article examines the tangible consequences of ongoing armed violence for the implementation of Colombia’s innovative transitional court, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, JEP). Establishing transitional justice mechanisms in contexts of persistent armed violence poses significant challenges and the implementation process is likely to seem flawed or lacking
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Lost in Transition: Explaining Authoritarianism in Peru Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Roger Merino
∞ International reports by human rights organizations coincide that the government of Dina Boluarte in Peru has responded to social mobilization with disproportionate actions by public forces. Whereas recent scholarship explains the rising authoritarianism in the country to the weakness of political actors, this article provides a different interpretation by focusing on the political and economic legacies
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Victim Participation in the Search for Disappeared Persons, a Contribution to (Procedural) Justice Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Briony Jones, Lisa Ott, Mina Rauschenbach, Camilo Sanchez
Enforced disappearance is a human rights violation and crime widely used in repression and armed conflict contexts. The families of the forcibly disappeared are left in a state of ambiguous loss as they search for the disappeared to satisfy their right to truth and achieve healing and closure. However, there is limited knowledge of the obstacles that hinder the search in practice and of how families
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The Epistemic Violence of Transitional Justice: A View from Sri Lanka Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Kiran Kaur Grewal
In this article I explore the failures of transitional justice in post-war Sri Lanka. For most commentators this is simply explained in terms of a lack of political will. However, I argue that beyond this transitional justice in Sri Lanka is a story of epistemic violence. This is a result of its over-reliance on abstract, universalist liberal democratic theory that fails to properly grasp the historical
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Memory Activism as Advocacy for Transitional Justice: Memory Laws, Mass Graves and Impunity in Spain Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Andrea Hepworth
∞ Transitional justice in Spain is still an ongoing process. This article examines the impact of memory laws and the rise of the radical right on transitional justice measures and the historical memory movement in Spain. It contends that the continued application of the 46/1977 Amnesty Law and the campaigning by radical right party Vox to repeal memory laws left a legal vacuum that precipitated interventions
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Justice Now and Later: How Measures Taken to Address Wrongdoings during Armed Conflict Affect Postconflict Justice Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Helga Malmin Binningsbø, Bård Drange, Cyanne E Loyle
∞ Transitional justice has become a default response when rebuilding postconflict societies. Indeed, to reconcile and move forward, it is argued that societies need to confront the violence of the past. But what factors influence when and how past violence will be addressed? We argue that judicial and quasi-judicial processes initiated while armed conflict is ongoing have a substantial impact on the
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Male and Gender-Diverse Victims of Sexual Violence in the Rohingya Genocide: The Selective Narrative of International Courts Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Victoria Hospodaryk
∞ For the approximately one million Rohingya forced to flee Myanmar since October 2016, unfolding proceedings in both the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) present potential avenues for securing justice. Yet, for male and gender-diverse victims of sexual violence, whose experiences have historically been overlooked in international criminal law, justice
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How Locally Owned and Sustainable Are Victims’ Groups in Postconflict and Transitional Settings? Reflections from Northern Uganda Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Philipp Schulz
Victims’ groups in postconflict settings have gained increasing attention in transitional justice scholarship and programming, as entry points for victims to engage with external transitional justice mechanisms, or as vehicles to facilitate healing, recovery or justice making on the micro level. These groups are often presented in terms of local ownership, victims’ participation and self-reliance.
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Dealing With the Past for a Peaceful Future? Analysing the Effect of Transitional Justice Instruments on Trust in Postconflict Societies Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Charlotte Fiedler, Karina Mross
Can dealing with a history of violent conflict through transitional justice help to rebuild social trust? Addressing three gaps in the current literature, we (1) analyse the effect of transitional justice on social trust, thereby going beyond the predominant focus on renewed violence; (2) use novel, handcoded data to take donor support for transitional justice into account, a relevant but mostly overlooked
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Transitional Justice in Post-terror Contexts: The Norwegian 22 July Memorial and the Ambiguity of Litigation Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
∞ This article explores litigation as a practice of memorialization through a qualitative study of the legal mobilization to halt and re-site the Norwegian national memorial for the 22 July 2011 terror attack. In arguing that adversarial legal processes initiated by grassroots actors can represent a form of commemorative work with an ambiguous societal status, the article contributes to the emergent
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Between Impunity and Justice? Exploring Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Colombia’s Special Sanctions (Sanciones Propias) for International Crimes Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Beatriz E Mayans-Hermida, Barbora Holá, Catrien Bijleveld
∞ The peace agreement signed by the Colombian government and the FARC has an innovative sanctioning regime which, based on a restorative approach, offers non-custodial sanctions as a less punitive form of punishment for international crimes. However, given their leniency, these ‘special sanctions’ have caused controversy. Based on qualitative interviews, this study explores the perceptions of different
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Reparations for Indigenous Women Subjected to Sexual and Environmental Violence in the Colombian Post-Peace Agreement Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Ana Iris Loperena, Fabián Rosas, Paula Cáceres, Laura Carianil, Angela Santamaria
∞ The peace agreement with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia involved both gender- and ethnic-based approaches. However, crimes against the sexual freedom and integrity of indigenous women and related territorial rights reparations continue to be problematic. Notably, no in-depth knowledge exists regarding the individual and collective effects of sexual and environmental violence on indigenous
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The Office on Missing Persons in Sri Lanka: Why Truth Is a Radical Proposition Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Chulani Kodikara
∞ In 2016, the Sri Lanka Parliament passed the Office on Missing Persons Act (OMP) ‘to search for and trace missing persons.’ At the time, Sinhala Buddhist nationalist leaders strongly objected to it. In this article, I read their resistance as resistance to a truth-seeking mechanism. Locating my analysis within a global paradigm of ‘dealing with the past’ through truth-seeking that assumes that ‘truth
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Narrowing the Gap in the Access to Justice for Child Victims in Postconflict Societies: An Analysis Stemming from the Construction of Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Christelle Molima Bameka
∞ A controversial approach characterizes international law and policy on children affected by armed conflict: it is much more concerned with child soldiers’ victimization than with their victims’ situation. This approach leads to (1) the prioritization of the former over the child victims of their crimes before judicial and non-judicial mechanisms and (2) a significant disparity in how international
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Reckoning with Conservation Violence on Indigenous Territories: Possibilities and Limitations of a Transitional Justice Response Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Colin Luoma
This article reflects on the merits of applying transitional justice to wrongs caused by the creation and enforcement of protected areas on Indigenous Peoples’ territories, referred to herein as ‘conservation violence.’ Conservation violence commonly infringes on an interrelated set of human rights, constituting a principal threat to both Indigenous Peoples and the environment. This wrongdoing has
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An Econcentric Turn in the Transitional Restorative Justice Process in Colombia Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Laura Ordóñez-Vargas, L. C Peralta Gonzalez, Enrique Prieto-Rios
∞ This article reflects on how Colombia, as an important laboratory in transitional restorative justice, a 60-year long internal conflict, is experiencing an ‘ecocentric turn.’ This transition is not free from contradiction, ambivalence or great challenges. For this article, ‘ecocentric turn’ means an epistemological movement from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism, with biocentrism as the middle stage
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Exploring the Nexus between Transitional Justice and Ecoterritorial Conflict Resolution: Time for an Ecoterritorial Turn in Transformative Transitional Justice? Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Sarah Kerremans, Tine Destrooper
∞ This article explores the nexus between ecoterritorial conflict resolution and transformative transitional justice, against the background of (neo)extractivism and the Peruvian case of half a century of oil violence. Our argument is twofold. On the one hand, we argue that transitional justice can act as a conceptual and analytical lens to better understand and further (claims for) change while also
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Harm, Relationality and More-than-Human Worlds: Developing the Field of Transitional Justice in New Posthumanist Directions Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Janine Natalya Clark
∞ Consistent with its liberal origins, the field of transitional justice is overwhelmingly concerned with harms done to human victims. Posthumanism, however, challenges the framing of humans as bounded and autonomous individuals, emphasizing that all of us are entangled within wider relational assemblages that reflect the deep interconnections between human and more-than-human worlds. The core aim
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From Truth Commission to Truth Project: The Evolution of Mississippi’s Incomplete Truth Commission, 2005–2010 Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Claire Whitlinger
∞ Just months after the Mississippi Truth Commission’s public launch in 2009, organizers abandoned the Commission despite sufficient funding and growing public support, deciding instead to pursue a statewide oral history project. This study explores why, offering insight into an understudied phenomenon: incomplete truth commissions. Drawing on ethnographic observations, archival documents and interviews
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Breaking the Promise: Transitional Justice between Tactical Concession and Legacies of Authoritarian Regime in Indonesia Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem
For more than two decades after the authoritarian regime ended in Indonesia, transitional justice remains an unfinished agenda in the new democracy. In every government leadership, transitional justice issues re-emerged and later vanished or failed at implementation. Post-Suharto’s presidents have always succeeded in getting support by including the transitional justice agenda in their campaigns and
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The Long Shadows of Gwangju: Transitional Criminal Justice in South Korea Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Moritz Vormbaum
∞ On 23 November 2021, the former South Korean president, Chun Doo-hwan, died at his home in Seoul less than a month after his successor Roh Tae-woo. Both men were leading figures during a dark period of the country’s military dictatorships. The most egregious example of their authoritarian rule was the killing of hundreds of students and other persons who were protesting against the martial law government
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Impunity and Transitional Justice in Indonesia: Aksi Kamisan’s Circular Time Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Elizabeth F Drexler
∞ This article positions the Indonesian weekly Thursday silent protests by victims’ families, Aksi Kamisan, as a space of and beyond transitional justice. Analysing Kamisan as repeated, embodied creative acts that reset perceptions, possibilities and imaginations about social belonging, political subjectivity and national identity discloses how authoritarian era affective forces undermine transitional
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Game-based Learning: Introducing the Subject of Transitional Justice through a Serious Game Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Igor Lyubashenko
∞ Transitional justice scholarship has produced a significant volume of valuable knowledge. However, there remains a challenge in transferring this knowledge to non-experts, such as students of academic programs that are not centered around the issue of TJ. It is an important challenge from the perspective of the interdisciplinary field, which should be interested in popularizing its scholarship and
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A Voices-Centered Approach to Transitional Justice: Youth-led Activism and Artistic Initiatives Open Spaces for Broad Community Engagement Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-04-30 Nadia Jmal,Virginie Ladisch
ABSTRACT In response to a global movement demanding justice for historically oppressed communities, there are increased calls for transitional justice approaches to help unravel legacies of colonization, slavery and marginalization. Applying transitional justice approaches to contexts of structural injustice raises new questions that push the boundaries of the field. In the face of these challenges
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Decolonization of Postcolonial Africa: A Structural Justice Project More Radical than Transitional Justice Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Mohamed Sesay
ABSTRACT This article seeks to contribute to the debate as to whether the field of transitional justice can or should take on decolonization as one of its desired goals. I argue that efforts to incorporate decolonization within the normative and functional remit of the field are politically, practically and conceptually untenable. In addition to the high implausibility of the field undertaking self-radicalization
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Evolution of the Conception of Justice within the Field of Transitional Justice in Post-dictatorial Chilean Society Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Carla Cubillos-Vega,Alejandra Zúñiga-Fajuri,Ximena Faúndez Abarca,Dahiana Gamboa Morales,José Gaete Fiscella
ABSTRACT∞ We have recently witnessed two political milestones in Chile: the social uprising of 18 October 2019 and, currently, the drafting of a new political constitution. In this context and based on data from interdisciplinary research on political and post-dictatorial culture, this article aims to present the conceptions of justice held by stakeholders in transitional justice efforts in Chile.
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Transitional Justice in Public and Private: Truth Commission Narratives in Greensboro Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Nicole Fox,David Cunningham
ABSTRACT In 1979, during an anti-racism march in the city in Greensboro, North Carolina, KKK and Nazi Party members opened fire on demonstrators, killing five and wounding eight. On the cusp of the 25th anniversary of these killings, efforts by community members culminated in the convening of the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission (GTRC) in the US. Drawing on a unique collection of public testimonies
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Patriarchy is a Judge: Young Feminists and LGBTQ+ Activists Performing Transitional Justice in Chile Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Hillary Hiner,Manuela Badilla,Ana López,Alejandra Zúñiga-Fajuri,Fuad Hatibovic
ABSTRACT In recent years many articles have discussed transitional justice in Chile with respect to the Pinochet dictatorship, and some of these have had a gendered perspective. In this article we seek to build upon this research, but touching upon recent human rights violations and political sexual violence that took place in Chile during the 18-O Uprising (October 2019 to January 2020). Key in our
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Youth, Transitional Justice and Art: Documenting War on the Streets of Sana’a, Yemen Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Waleed Alhariri,ThiYazen Al-Alawi
ABSTRACT The role and impact of youth and art in war is multifaceted. In this article, presented as a dialogue, Yemeni street artist ThiYazan Al-Alawi shares his views on art, youth and justice in the midst of seven years of civil war in Yemen. His work is part documentation, part memorialization, part analysis, part therapy and part dissent. The artist first reflects on how he started, doing street
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‘When We are in Crisis’: Youth-Centered Transitional Justice, Police Violence, and Political Imaginaries Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Patrick Anderson,Christina Aushana,Caroline Collins
ABSTRACT This article describes youth involvement in the voter-mandated transition to a fully independent, powerful community commission overseeing the San Diego (California) Police Department. We begin by describing the historical context of police violence against communities of color in San Diego, and previous attempts to practice transparency and accountability in public safety. We then situate
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Peace as Betrayal: On the Human Cost of Relational Peacebuilding in Transitional Contexts Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Wilhelm Verwoerd,Alistair Little,Brandon Hamber
ABSTRACT This article explores the micro-dynamics of intragroup betrayal and self-betrayal that can be evoked by relational peacebuilding between groups. The painful accusation of betrayal by close, family-type group members and internally feeling like a betrayer as a result of working with the ‘other side’ is presented as an underestimated human cost of relational peacebuilding. This understanding
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Reckoning with Perpetrators and Collaborators: Accountability and Transitional Justice in Latin American Postdictatorship Cinema Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Mariana Cunha
El pacto de Adriana (Adriana’s Pact), dir. Lissette Orozco. Chile, 2017.
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Erratum to “‘Ending the Silence': Addressing the Legacy of Displacement in Northern Ireland's ‘Troubles’” Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-08-28
Niall Gilmartin, International Journal of Transitional Justice (2021); doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa027; published online: 11 April 2021.
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Apologies for and Acknowledgements of Historical Violence and Struggles for Justice Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 M Brinton Lykes,Hugo van der Merwe
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Complicity or Decolonization? Restitution of Heritage from ‘Global’ Ethnographic Museums Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Padraig McAuliffe
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Meaningful Engagement from the Bottom-Up? Taking Stock of Participation in Transitional Justice Processes Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Pamina Firchow, Yvette Selim
This article surveys the literature on participation in transitional justice (TJ) focusing primarily on victims and bottom-up actors. We argue that often the preoccupation in TJ has been with greater rather than more meaningful participation, and that there needs to be a concerted effort to focus on everyday actors, including their voices, needs and priorities. Consideration also needs to be given
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Books Received Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-09-14
The following is a list of books received by the journal and published in the field between 1 April and 1 August 2021:
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The Exclusivity of Inclusion: Global Construction of Vulnerable and Apolitical Victimhood in Peace Agreements Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-09-08 Astrid Jamar
This article examines the articulation of commitments towards inclusion and victimhood agreed upon within peace processes. It builds on original and comprehensive empirical material to scrutinize provisions for victims’ inclusion in all peace agreements signed from 1990 to 2016. In addition to methodological innovations, this approach offers a global picture and theoretical insights from intersectional
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Democratizing Truth: An Analysis of Truth Commissions in the United States Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Daniel Posthumus, Kelebogile Zvobgo
∞ Over the past half-century, numerous transitional justice (TJ) measures have been implemented globally. While much research has examined different TJ modalities in the aftermath of authoritarian rule and armed conflict, a growing body of work recognizes TJ outside of political transitions. We study a noteworthy export from transitional to non-transitional settings: truth commissions. Building on
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Land and Transitional Justice in Brazil Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-07-20 Fabricio Teló, Alessandra Gasparotto, Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros, Regina Coelly Fernandes Saraiva
This article explores how Brazilian transitional justice has handled land dispossession suffered by peasants and Indigenous peoples during the dictatorship of 1964–1985. The article contextualizes the repression suffered by social movements fighting for land before and after the 1964 coup. Despite the fact that the National Truth Commission created a Working Group to investigate violence against peasants
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Books Received Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-07-20
The following is a list of books received by the journal and published in the field between 15 August and 1 December 2020:
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Experiences of Spiritual Advocacy for Land and Territorial Itineraries for the Defense of Wiwa Women’s Rights in Postconflict Colombia Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Lejandrina Pastor, Angela Santamaria
This article explores Wiwa female spiritual advocacy in the Colombian Caribbean region during the postconflict period. The methodologies and practices of indigenous communities have been underappreciated in transitional justice literature about land and property rights. This article seeks to analyze spiritual and territorial advocacy by local indigenous women for the defense of their lands and their
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Collective Ownership and Land Restitution: A New Opportunity for Afro-Colombian Communities Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Rocío Del Pilar Peña-Huertas, María Mónica Parada-Hernández, Natalia Abril-Bonilla, Luisa Fda Uribe-Larrota, María Camila Jiménez-Nicholls, Ana Valentina Nieto-Cruz
Some contemporary liberal states incorporate provisions that protect the relationship between ethnic communities and their lands. However, such measures are quite fragile in terms of effectively protecting the communities against market dynamics. We argue that transitional justice systems, such as that currently being implemented in Colombia, provide the mechanisms to not only guarantee the restitution
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The Promised Land of Transitional Justice Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-05-19 Sánchez N.
Elusive Justice: Women, Land Rights, and Colombia's Transition to Peace, MeertensDonny. University of Wisconsin Press, November 2019, 224pp. ISBN: 9780299325602 – hardcover ($79.95).
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The Promise and Perils of Urban Land Restitution in Latvia Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Rowen J, Snipe A.
ABSTRACT∞In this article we address the transitional justice policy of restitution in kind with a case study of urban land reform in Latvia. Contributing to scholarship on the challenge of property reforms after generations of dispossession, we examine the economic, social and political meanings of property restitution in this post-Soviet context. Using process-tracing techniques to examine the creation
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Intruders in a Balancing Act: Black Economic Empowerment, Transitional Justice and Investment Arbitration Tribunals Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Ginevra Le Moli
This article examines the role of ad hoc investment arbitration tribunals in arbitrating highly sensitive matters in transitional justice contexts, focusing on disputes arising from black economic empowerment (BEE) policies in countries formerly under racially discriminatory regimes. After an overview of the investment protection system, the article introduces the historical context of BEE policies
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The Promise and Perils of Mainstreaming Intersectionality in the Colombian Peace Process Int. J. Transit. Justice (IF 1.758) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Juliana González Villamizar, Pascha Bueno-Hansen
This article examines the extent to which mainstreaming intersectionality in the Colombian Truth Commission (CEV) serves the feminist aim of producing social transformations by exposing patriarchal, racialized and class-based structures of oppression. Analysing the mainstreaming of intersectionality as a site of struggle exposes the interlocking dynamics of inequality and ontological impositions that