Community‐based restorative transitional justice in Sierra Leone

Park, Augustine S. J.

doi:10.1080/10282580903343134

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“…Yet they may also be seeking ways of 'restoring the deliberative control of justice to citizens' (Crawford, 2004). Some have used community-based restorative practices to address the remaining traumas of political conflict -for example, the gacaca courts in Rwanda and traditional reintegration rituals in Sierra Leone (Clark, 2010;Park, 2010).…”

Section: Democratization and Justicementioning

confidence: 98%

Deepening democracy through community dispute resolution: problems and prospects in South Africa and Chile

Gordon

2011

Contemporary Justice Review

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Section: Democratization and Justicementioning

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Deepening democracy through community dispute resolution: problems and prospects in South Africa and Chile

Gordon

2011

Contemporary Justice Review

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“…On this very point, Park notes that despite favourable rhetoric upon establishment of the TRC in Sierra Leone, in the end reconciliation was 'left to the localities since the TRC had neither the time nor resources'. 70 Truly to begin a process towards reconciliation between divided communities or to overcome inter-ethnic suspicions will require truth-telling, dialogue and exchange at all levels of society, which could be facilitated by a little creativity with the TRC model. As one female survivor suggested, 'Burundians like beer', alluding to relevant social practices that could be utilized to bring people together for this purpose.…”

Section: National Reconciliationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Truth under the avocado trees. Local needs and Burundi's TRC: whither the truth?

Taylor

2013

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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Decades of cyclic violence have been met with a near total absence of meaningful redress in Burundi leading to a festering culture of impunity and entrenched divisions. Transitional justice has traditionally been a non-starter. A proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) slated to commence work in 2012 will thus constitute the country's first systematic attempt to deal with its past. Attempting to contextualize this development at the grassroots level, this article seeks to understand whether the objectives and the truth likely to emerge will be meaningful and relevant to ordinary people affected by violence. Using evidence from interviews conducted in Burundi, together with an analysis of the truth commissions in Sierra Leone and South Africa, key themes are introduced to offer a sobering and critical assessment of the likelihood that truth, reconciliation and the restoration of the dignity of victims will be realizable through the TRC. By questioning the truth likely to emerge, the analysis suggests that at present there is an acute risk that the TRC will repeat many shortcomings of the past and become disconnected from the communities it purports to serve.

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“…The work of Park (2010Park ( , 2016 on the development of community-based restorative justice (CBRJ) in response to significant social harms (such as Canada's Residential Schools policy), provides us with the conceptual framework for highlighting the differences between Indigenous-inspired initiatives and state-sponsored offerings. Specific elements of CBRJ that corresponds to ICRJ initiatives like those previously discussed include the following features.…”

Section: What Distinguishes Indigenous-centred Restorative Justice?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Much like CBRJ, the ICRJ initiatives discussed previously are what Park (2010, p.95) describes as examples of ‘situated practice’. Unlike SCRJ initiatives, those founded on situated practice are not predetermined by state actors, are ‘local’ in orientation, rather than ‘standardised’ and/or uniform in practice.…”

Section: What Distinguishes Indigenous‐centred Restorative Justice?mentioning

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What exactly are you restoring us to? A critical examination of Indigenous experiences of state‐centred restorative justice

Tauri

2022

Howard J Crime Justice

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Over the past 30 years the restorative justice (RJ) movement has become increasingly accepted within the creases of formal justice systems everywhere, but most especially within the systems of settler‐colonial states. From a critical Indigenous perspective one especially powerful driver for the elevation of RJ to its current exalted place in state crime control, has been the purposeful utilisation of Indigenous cultural artefacts by the movement to market their wares. Utilising research on Indigenous peoples’ experiences of state‐centred RJ programmes, this article challenges claims made by RJ practitioners and state functionaries regarding the emancipatory potential of RJ practices for Indigenous peoples residing in settler colonial contexts.

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Community‐based restorative transitional justice in Sierra Leone

Cited by 28 publications

References 24 publications

Deepening democracy through community dispute resolution: problems and prospects in South Africa and Chile

Deepening democracy through community dispute resolution: problems and prospects in South Africa and Chile

Truth under the avocado trees. Local needs and Burundi's TRC: whither the truth?

What exactly are you restoring us to? A critical examination of Indigenous experiences of state‐centred restorative justice

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