The new landscape of transitional justice

Roht‐Arriaza, Naomi

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“…Scholar Erin Daly (2008), as cited in Hayner (2011), expressed how it is "unrealistic to expect one accepted truth to emerge from a TC process in some contexts" (p.25). The process can also frustrate and re-traumatize victims and have no effect on the local power dynamics (Roht-Arriaza, 2006). In some cases, TCs do not find new truths, but rather break the silence (Hayner, 2011, p.20).…”

Section: F) Truthmentioning

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Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

Millar¹

2017

The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives

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Truth commissions (TCs) are government-established bodies that investigate past human rights abuses. They address truth, justice and reconciliation in societies that have suffered from systematic human rights violations. The truth commissions in South Korea and Canada address human rights violations that occurred over a generation ago against their citizens. They differ from more traditional TCs in historical scope of the violations, and the difficulty of investigation. Despite their robust mandates, civil society's involvement and stable political situation, neither have been successful in creating reconciliation. South Korea's truth seeking efforts have the potential of reconciliation, but the political culture and continued tensions with North Korea limit the chance of a wider appeasement. Canada's legally mandated truth commission has successfully involved residence school survivors and worked to educate the public. Yet, this addresses only a part of the systematic human rights violations suffered by the indigenous populations since colonization-violations continue. Reconciliation of historical injustices takes a long time since they are not just part of citizens' memories, but part of the culture and education. This paper seeks to demonstrate, with a particular focus on South Korea and Canada, the importance of addressing historical human rights violations, and how despite their ambitious goals, TCs are often hampered by lack of political will to create real change.

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Section: F) Truthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

Millar¹

2017

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“…27 Different mechanisms of transitional justice are implemented in different regional and political contexts after mass atrocities, but the question of when and how transition actually ends remains. And who defines the end of transition?…”

Section: Spaces Of Memory In Mexico and The Liminality Of Transmentioning

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Rehumanizing the Disappeared: Spaces of Memory in Mexico and the Liminality of Transitional Justice

Karl¹

2014

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The fact that you don't know if he is alive, if he is getting enough to eat, if he is cold or what happened to him is so hard to deal with.-Doña Maria | 728 American Quarterly victims of disappearances on the micro level is connected to national political processes of the liminality of transitional justice. Describing different practices and discourses of families of the disappeared and conceptualizing them as processes of rehumanization, the article shows the multiple transitional frictions in the Mexican case. 2 Reflecting on the violence in the current "war on drugs" and the recent opening of the first memory museum in Mexico, the Casa de la Memoria Indómita (House of Untamed Memory), I also argue that memory practices around the disappeared in Mexico continue to be part of a social countermemory rather than of collective or national memory.

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“…Following a hesitant start in Buenos Aires, such truth trials have spread to various Argentine cities making public a wealth of testimonies (by thousands of witnesses) and uncovering new evidence. Soon, these testimonies began to undermine the legitimacy of the amnesty laws; bolstered by an outpouring of public support they produced new pressures on the government and courts to prosecute those responsible (Roht‐Arriaza 2006).…”

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Recursive cosmopolitization: Argentina and the global Human Rights Regime

Lévy

2010

British Journal of Sociology

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This paper illustrates how varieties of cosmopolitanism are shaped through a mutually constitutive set of cultural dispositions and institutional practices that emerge at the interstices of global human right norms and local legal practices. Converging pressures of 'cosmopolitan imperatives' and the multiplicity of particularized manifestations are co-evolving in the context of intercrossings during which distinctive cosmopolitanisms are established. This complex relationship of global normative expectations and their local appropriations is elucidated through the dynamic of recursive cosmopolitization. Suggesting that, local problems are resolved with recourse to global prescriptions while local solutions are inscribed in international institutions consolidating the global Human Rights Regime. The Argentinean case carries conceptual and empirical weight as it underscores the recursivity of cosmopolitization by calibrating the tensions of universalism and particularism at the intersection of global, national and regional scales. Argentina is a paradigmatic instantiation for how cosmopolitanism can emanate in the periphery as local problems are globalized. This, in turn, has resulted in the institutionalization of a global Human Rights Regime which exercises normative and political-legal pressures on how states legitimately deal with human rights abuses. It is this cosmopolitan balance, rather than presuppositions of universalistic exogenous pressures or particularistic national exceptions, which is shaping the cultural and political relevance of human rights norms.

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The new landscape of transitional justice

Cited by 73 publications

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Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

Rehumanizing the Disappeared: Spaces of Memory in Mexico and the Liminality of Transitional Justice

Recursive cosmopolitization: Argentina and the global Human Rights Regime

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