Civil society and transitional justice: possibilities, patterns and prospects

Backer, David

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“…Otras contribuciones académicas sobre las demandas sociales de JT se basan en LQYHVWLJDFLRQHV HWQRJUi¿FDV TXH LQFOX\HQ HQWUHYLVWDV \X REVHUYDFLyQ SDUWLFLSDQWH 7KHL-GRQ HQ HQWUHYLVWDV D VXEJUXSRV HVSHFt¿FRV GH OD SREODFLyQ FRPR ODV YtFWLPDV (Grodsky 2008;Strover y Weinstein 2004;International Center for Transitional Justice 2004;Espinoza Cuevas et al 2003), o en el análisis de los grupos de presión (Backer 2003). En resumen, con muy pocas excepciones, los académicos no se han basado en datos sistemáticos y generalizables sobre las actitudes del conjunto de la población de un país hacia las políticas de JT.…”

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Las actitudes de los españoles ante las medidas de justicia transicional relativas a la Guerra Civil y al franquismo

Aguilar¹,

Balcells²,

Cebolla‐Boado³

2010

Rev. int. sociol.

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RESUMENSe ha hablado mucho de los determinantes institucionales de la justicia transicional (JT). Sin embargo, el conocimiento de qué variables condicionan las actitudes de los ciudadanos ante las políticas de reparación por violaciones de los derechos humanos sigue siendo escaso. En este artículo se explota una encuesta original del CIS realizada en 2008 a una muestra representativa de la población española. Un año antes, el Gobierno socialista había aprobado la conocida como "ley de Memoria Histórica", dirigida a la reparación de las víctimas de la guerra civil, la dictadura franquista y la transición a la democracia. En este trabajo analizamos las actitudes individuales ante un conjunto de políticas de JT, como las comisiones de la verdad, los juicios a los violadores de derechos humanos y las medidas de reparación simbólica. Estudiamos el efecto GH GLIHUHQWHV FRQMXQWRV GH YDULDEOHV H[SOLFDWLYDV IDFWRUHV LQGLYLGXDOHV VRFLRGHPRJUi¿FRV H LGHROyJLFRV IDFWRUHV IDPLOLDUHV \ GH VRFLDOL]DFLyQ \ ¿QDOPHQWH IDFWRUHV FRQWH[WXDOHV /RV UHVXOWDGRV UHYHODQ TXH WDQWR la ideología como la victimización de la familia del entrevistado por parte de la dictadura son muy relevantes para explicar las actitudes individuales ante las políticas de JT. Los factores contextuales (regionales) resultan, asimismo, cruciales.

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Las actitudes de los españoles ante las medidas de justicia transicional relativas a la Guerra Civil y al franquismo

Aguilar¹,

Balcells²,

Cebolla‐Boado³

2010

Rev. int. sociol.

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“…Such efforts are likely to arise from civil society, which elsewhere has made a significant contribution in calling for, designing and establishing transitional justice mechanisms (Backer 2003). The government, however, has responsibility to facilitate and encourage such efforts.…”

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Triangle of Betrayal: Collaborators and Transitional Justice in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Dudai

Cohen²

2007

Journal of Human Rights

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This article addresses the phenomenon of collaboration and societal reaction to it in the Israeli-Palestinian context. The authors identify a "triangle of betrayal": the Palestinian collaborators' betrayal of their communities; the betrayal of the communities who often use the label of collaboration as a pretext for abuses; and the betrayal of the Israeli government who often receives services from the collaborators and later abandons them to their fate. A transitional justice framework is proposed as a potential means to respond to this complex legacy.Betrayal is the only truth that sticks (Arthur Miller, After the Fall)The Israeli "disengagement" from Gaza is far from a full end-of-conflict initiative, yet it can be seen as a "simulation" of limited peace, as an exercise-or improvised dress rehearsalin what an end, or a substantial transformation, of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may look like. When the fog of violence clears, the actors are exposed in their predicted roles: Jewish colonial settlers reluctantly pulled from their houses back to Israel, Israeli soldiers withdraw to new lines, Palestinians who suffered under these soldiers and settlers would be able to enjoy a slightly higher level of freedom, and civilians inside Israel fear rocket attacks from liberated Gaza. Dilemmas and concerns abound-the fate of the houses left behind, security arrangements, control of borders. Yet in the hundreds of journalistic pieces, think-tanks' position papers and legal analyses, few have paid attention to an awkward actor, which does not fit clearly in our predicted categories-Palestinian collaborators.

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“…Similar initiatives have taken place in countries such as Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Guatemala. 121 Indeed, Alex Boraine maintains that the major role of human rights organisations is to document violations over time in order to construct a better future. 122 David Backer shows how human rights organisations have been instrumental in transitional justice processes globally in multiple ways: data collection and monitoring, representation and advocacy, collaboration, facilitation and consultation, service delivery and intervention, acknowledgement and compensation, parallel or substitute authority, and research and education.…”

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Human rights NGOs in Israel: collective memory and denial

Orr

Golan

2014

The International Journal of Human Rights

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This article discusses the complex interrelations between human rights, memory, forgetting and denial by analysing the discourses and practices of Israeli human rights organisations with respect to the past of the Palestinian people, particularly the events that took place in 1948. It examines how and why Israeli organisations dialectically remember and repress elements of the local past, and align themselves with the prevailing national silencing of the discussion on the Palestinian refugees' future rights, particularly their right of return. The article concludes by exploring the implications of these practices on the organisations' capacity to significantly impact the Israeli-Palestinian future.

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Civil society and transitional justice: possibilities, patterns and prospects

Cited by 71 publications

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Las actitudes de los españoles ante las medidas de justicia transicional relativas a la Guerra Civil y al franquismo

Las actitudes de los españoles ante las medidas de justicia transicional relativas a la Guerra Civil y al franquismo

Triangle of Betrayal: Collaborators and Transitional Justice in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Human rights NGOs in Israel: collective memory and denial

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