Notes from the Field: Silence Kills! Women and the Transitional Justice Process in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia

Gray, Doris H.; Coonan, Terry

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“…While several scholars have argued that such a far-reaching objective is beyond the remit of TJ interventions with a delimited lifespan and resources (de Greiff 2020), arguments in favor of moving from this notion of transformative reparations toward an understanding of disruptive reparations can be found both in the early practice and conceptual history of TJ, which was inherently disruptive in nature. Returning to and foregrounding these disruptive roots of TJ is increasingly uncommon in the current context of institutionalization, legalization and professionalization of the field, but would nonetheless be in line with the expectations of many victims (Gray 2018; Robins et al 2022; Vatthauer and Weipert-Fenner 2017). The notion of disruptive reparations also avoids the potential depoliticizing of reparations programs that may happen when they move closer to development programs without a clear critical and theoretical underpinning framing their specificities and normative objectives.…”

Section: Theorizing the Tunisian Approach Through The Lens Of Disrupt...mentioning

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Disruptive Reparations? Tunisia's Victim Regions and the Collective Reparations Dilemma in Transitional Societies

Destrooper

2023

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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In the past decade, an encompassing transitional justice process has been developed in Tunisia, which interacts with various other policy domains, including that of development. This article foregrounds three important interrelated innovations of Tunisia's transitional justice process: the explicit attention for economic crimes and violations of economic, social and cultural rights; the introduction of the notion of victim regions; and the conceptualisation of collective reparation programs. I discuss these innovations in light of the ongoing debate about the collective reparations dilemma in transitional societies, and notably about the ideal relation between (collective) reparation programs and development. The article then introduces the notion of disruptive reparations to theorise this relation in a way that foregrounds the need to consider and disrupt the political, socio-economic and epistemic structures that facilitated the initial harm. This exercise acknowledges the specificity of various policy domains, and approaches them in a way that is fundamentally rooted in victims’ justice needs.

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Section: Theorizing the Tunisian Approach Through The Lens Of Disrupt...mentioning

confidence: 98%

Disruptive Reparations? Tunisia's Victim Regions and the Collective Reparations Dilemma in Transitional Societies

Destrooper

2023

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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“…Their punishment included harassment, expulsion from school, rape, the threat of rape, etc. (Gray and Coonan 2013, Mhajne and Brandt 2020, Wolf 2017, Zaki 2018). Islamists' mobilization skills and narrative as a marginalized majority helped them re‐emerge on the political scene after the fall of the secular regime in January of 2011.…”

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Strategic Choices: How Conservative Women Activists Remained Active throughout Tunisia's Democratic Transition

Youssef

2022

Sociological Forum

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Gender politics scholars conclude that conservatives and religious actors curtail women's rights and political participation during a democratic transition, except in post-conflict contexts. Yet, this was not the case in Tunisia. This article documents how Islamist women activists remained active throughout the democratic transition in Tunisia. I argue that Islamist women within Tounissiet remained politically active by making two strategic choices: (1) not challenging conservatives and (2) aligning with liberal feminists when it was in their interest. This article builds on the emerging scholarship on women's roles in a democratic transition, especially conservative women, by providing original empirical work on an Islamist women's rights organization in a democratizing Tunisia. I suggest that more needs to be understood about conservative women and new actors that democratic transitions empower and embolden.

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“…L'une des incarnations les plus frappantes de cette violence fut le cas des prisonnières politiques. Doris Gray et Terry Coonan (2013), à la suite des entrevues menées auprès de 80 anciennes détenues et de plusieurs femmes de prisonniers, dressent le portrait suivant. Les données sur les femmes détenues sont très variables puisque nombre d'entre elles étaient emprisonnées secrètement, mais elles oscilleraient entre 300 et 1 500.…”

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Violences genrées. Enjeux et résistances

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Ezquerro²,

Tanguay³

2019

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Notes from the Field: Silence Kills! Women and the Transitional Justice Process in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia

Cited by 24 publications

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Disruptive Reparations? Tunisia's Victim Regions and the Collective Reparations Dilemma in Transitional Societies

Disruptive Reparations? Tunisia's Victim Regions and the Collective Reparations Dilemma in Transitional Societies

Strategic Choices: How Conservative Women Activists Remained Active throughout Tunisia's Democratic Transition

Violences genrées. Enjeux et résistances

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