The Pinochet Effect

Roht‐Arriaza, Naomi

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“…Diaspora members have also been instrumental in filing legal claims in Belgium and France against Cambodian Khmer Rouge leaders (Mey 2008). In Spain they filed a legal case against Chile's dictator Augusto Pinochet (Roht-Arriaza 2006). In terms of memorialisation, in Sweden diasporas originating from the 1990s wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina have transformed their conflictgenerated attitudes and moved towards reconciliation (Kostic 2012;Hall 2016).…”

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Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction: contextual and comparative dimensions

Koinova¹

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This special issue seeks to move the scholarly conversation beyond notions of conflict-generated diasporas as simply agents of conflict or peace. The field is ripe to unpack the notion of context for diaspora mobilisation in International Relations, the focus and novelty of this special issue. Theorising in this volume goes beyond current prevalent thinking that contexts are host-states in which diasporas live, and original home-states to which they are transnationally connected. The emphasis here is that diasporas have linkages to different contexts, and that their embeddedness in these contexts -simultaneously or sequentially in time -either shapes their mobilizations or is shaped by them. The volume theorises about spatialities and temporalities of diaspora engagement: it emphasises spatial notions such as multi-sited embeddedness, positionality, and translocalism on the one side, and temporal notions such as critical junctures, transformative events, simultaneity, crises, and durability of conflicts on the other. This collection further adds new thematic areas to current scholarly inquiry, opening the discussion beyond interest in diaspora remittances, economic development, and extraterritorial voting. The authors take little-explored paths to examine diasporas as agents in transitional justice processes, contested sovereignty, and fragile and de facto states, as well as in civic and ethnic-based activism.

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Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction: contextual and comparative dimensions

Koinova¹

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Th e Truth Commission ultimately recommended that a monument be created, a day of remembrance, and a follow-up body to monitor compliance with the recommendations. 166 Plus, the commission recommended the establishment of a fund to compensate all victims, where at least 1% of all international assistance received from abroad be earmarked for such compensation. 167 Sadly, few of these recommendations were heeded.…”

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Victim and Witness Measures of the International Criminal Court: A Comparative Analysis

McLaughlin

2007

Law Pract Int Courts Trib

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Th e protections of victims and witnesses have evolved from the inception of the ICTY and continue through to the creation of the ICC. Th e ICTY set the benchmark on victim and witness protection through reliance on varying national court systems as well as on international standards. Th e ICTY's approach has been followed by the ICTR and the SCSL, though each tribunal made important advances in victim and witness protection.Today, ICC continues to follow the lead of the other tribunals. Although it is still unknown how well the ICC will protect victims and witnesses, if the Rules of Procedure and Evidence are any indication, the ICC will provide proper protection measures for victims and witnesses in the international tribunal arena.After comparing the diff erent victim and witness measures implemented by the ICC to similar measures of the other Tribunals, as well as various national court systems, it is apparent that the ICC has developed extensive victim and witness measures that mirror those established by the other tribunals. Understanding both the benefi ts as well as possible shortcomings of each measure, the ICC will be better equipped to implement the measures deemed necessary for the victims and witnesses whose lives have been impacted by the crimes that come before the Court.

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“…The high profile case of former military dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet, is one such example. A diaspora lawyer filed a case in the victims' names in Spain, triggering solidarity and political mobilization throughout Europe, South America and the USA (Roht-Arriaza 2006). Victim associations related to 1970's atrocities in Cambodia used universal jurisdiction in Belgium and France by filing cases in 1999 against Khmer Rouge leaders (Mey 2008).…”

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Diasporas and transitional justice: transnational activism from local to global levels of engagement

Koinova

Karabegović

2016

Global Networks

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Scholarship on transitional justice, transnational social movements, and transnational diaspora mobilization has offered little understanding about how memorialization initiatives with substantial diaspora involvement emerge transnationally and are embedded and sustained in different contexts. We argue that diasporas play a galvanizing role in transnational interest-based and symbolic politics, expanding claim-making from the local to national, supranational, and global levels of engagement. Using initiatives to memorialize atrocities committed at the former Omarska concentration camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we identify a four-stage mobilization process. First, initiatives emerged and diffused across transnational networks after a local political opportunity opened in the homeland. Second, attempts at coordination of activities took place transnationally through an NGO. Third, initiatives were contextualized on the nation-state level in different host-states, depending on the political opportunities and constraints available there. Fourth, memorialization claims were eventually shifted from the national to the supranational and global levels. The article concludes by demonstrating the potential to apply the analysis to similar global movements in which diasporas are directly involved.

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The Pinochet Effect

Cited by 184 publications

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Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction: contextual and comparative dimensions

Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction: contextual and comparative dimensions

Victim and Witness Measures of the International Criminal Court: A Comparative Analysis

Diasporas and transitional justice: transnational activism from local to global levels of engagement

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