Developing the African Union Transitional Justice Policy: an assemblage perspective

Lühe, Ulrike

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“…In the field's fourth decade, commitments to liberal-cosmopolitan law-and atrocityfocused standard TJ cuts across Western/non-Western and Global South/North binaries and geographies (Jones and Lühe, 2021; but see Madlingozi, 2010). The AU policy process demonstrates that experts and consultants from the Global South may just as easily and determinately as their northern counterparts steer TJ policymaking towards the international standard (Lühe, 2021). In making the AU TJ policy, the experts and drafters were African; critiques of TJ coming from African practitioners and researchers were deliberated; and states and NGOs were consulted; yet the resulting policy conformed to 'non-negotiables' and met the expectations of the international standard (Lühe, 2021: 180).…”

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The standardisation of transitional justice

Gissel

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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This article argues that transitional justice (TJ) has recently been standardised: There is now a two-tiered global standard of TJ which structures policy responses and academic thinking. TJ comprises criminal justice, truth-telling, reparation and institutional reform – four core elements in a ‘comprehensive’ approach. The standard involves specifications for design, procedure and performance and draws on a selection of seemingly unambiguous international legal norms. Paradoxically, it claims to eschew a one-size-fits-all formula, while promoting uniformity in diverse contexts. It is moreover unclear whether its implementation generates beneficial effects in society. Building on existing research on international standardisation as an international political and sociological phenomenon, the article analyses the recently developed TJ standard and presents the first account of the process of TJ standardisation. It demonstrates how processes of ‘generification’ and ‘localisation’ make practices transferable and establish the means to facilitate their replication in and across different contexts and settings. These processes are illustrated drawing on existing scholarship from around the world that highlights the acceptance and contestation of and resistance to the standard. After analysing these processes, the article discusses the implications of TJ standardisation for societies, scholarship and global governance.

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Section: Localisationmentioning

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The standardisation of transitional justice

Gissel

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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Developing the African Union Transitional Justice Policy: an assemblage perspective

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The standardisation of transitional justice

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