Transitional Justice as Global Project: critical reflections

Nagy, Rosemary

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“…Die Verlagerung der Aufarbeitung in externe oder von externen Akteuren erdachte Gremien stellen ebenso wie auch die externe för-derung demokratischer und rechtsstaatlicher Institutionen westlichen zuschnitts, die autonome entwicklung einheimischer Institutionen in frage. Den staaten wird ein standardisiertes, in anderen Kontexten erprobtes Instrumentarium vorgegeben und weder zeit noch Raum für einen eigenen Weg zum Umgang mit der Vergangenheit sowie zu Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit gelassen (Nagy 2008;turner 2008). zu viel externe einmischung läuft daher Gefahr, die Legitimität entstehender demokratischer Institutionen zu untergraben.…”

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Der vergessene Faktor – Zum Einfluss von Transitional Justice auf die Entwicklung von Rechtsstaatlichkeit in Demokratisierungsprozessen

Weiffen

2011

Z Vgl Polit Wiss

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Zusammenfassung: Bislang hat sich die Demokratieforschung kaum damit auseinandergesetzt, in welcher Weise sich der umgang mit unter dem Vorgängerregime begangenen Menschenrechtsverletzungen auf die Konsolidierungschancen einer jungen Demokratie auswirkt. Der Beitrag vertritt die these, dass die suche nach Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit lediglich einzelne teildimensionen von Demokratie beeinflusst, und greift die Dimension der Rechtsstaatlichkeit heraus. Neben der theoretischen Diskussion möglicher effekte von Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung auf die Herausbildung rechtsstaatlicher Standards und Institutionen werden Probleme der Konzeptspezifikation und Messung von abhängiger und unabhängiger Variable aufgezeigt. empirische Analysen liefern deutliche Hinweise auf einen positiven zusammenhang zwischen Vergangenheitsbearbeitung und Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden die Herausforderungen weiterführender Forschung zur Wirkung von Transitional Justice beleuchtet. Schlüsselwörter: Demokratisierung · Rechtsstaatlichkeit · Transitional JusticeAbstract: until now, democracy research has hardly looked into how the manner in which the previous regime's human rights violations are dealt with affects the ability of young democracies to consolidate. the article supports the assumption that the search for truth and justice only influences certain democratic partial regimes and focuses on the Rule of Law dimension. While discussing possible effects of reconciliation work on the evolution of standards and institutions of the Rule of Law in theory, the article also points out the challenges of specifying and measuring the concepts pertaining to the dependent and independent variables. empirical analyses provide z Vgl Polit Wiss (2011) 5:51-74 Für hilfreiche Kommentare zu einer früheren Version dieses Beitrags bedanke ich mich bei den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern der Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Demokratieforschung der DVPW im Juni 2010 in Würzburg. Dr. B. Weiffen () fachbereich Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft, universität Konstanz, fach D 89, universitätsstr. 10, 78457 Konstanz, Deutschland e-Mail: brigitte.weiffen@uni-konstanz.de 52 B. Weiffen clear indications of a positive relationship between reconciliation work and the Rule of Law. The challenges of further research on the effect of transitional justice are examined in this light.

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Der vergessene Faktor – Zum Einfluss von Transitional Justice auf die Entwicklung von Rechtsstaatlichkeit in Demokratisierungsprozessen

Weiffen

2011

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“…Transitional justice has emerged as a body of customary international law and normative standards, and is now based on a ''fairly settled consensus'' that there can be no lasting peace without some kind of accounting (Nagy 2008). While transitional justice historically was retributive and focused on giving force to civil and political rights, in addition to the trial court model and the reconciliation model (Teitel 2003), transitional justice today also comprises a broad range of restitution and reparation measures.…”

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Beyond Sexual Violence in Transitional Justice: Political Insecurity as a Gendered Harm

Lemaitre

Sandvik

2014

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The growing literature on gender in armed conflict and the debates over post-conflict reparations for women, focus on the prevalence and harms of sexual violence. While this focus has recently been critiqued, there are few articulations of other types of gendered injuries. This article decentres the emphasis on sexual violence by examining the intersection between forced displacement and political insecurity. Based on extensive field research in Colombia, and using as an example a case study of an internally displaced women's grassroots organization in Cartagena, Colombia, this article examines political insecurity as a specifically gendered harm. It reflects on the concrete circumstances of insecurity, on the relevance of traditional gender roles in the constitution of insecurity, and on the challenges for court-ordered remedies. This widening of the scope of attention also invites complex reflection on the possibility of transformative reparations in post-conflict situations.

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“…Moreover, many of these, sometimes invisible, local processes of facing the past have their roots in religious practice (see Martin 2016;Lamont 2016). Yet the global narrative or 'global project' (Nagy 2008) which drives transitional justice practice and peacebuilding, and which is deeply underscored by ideas of the liberal peace, often overlooks the religious as a possible site of confronting the past-not least since religious ideologies are often seen as the cause of many post-Cold War conflicts (Clark 2010).…”

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Mapping the Nexus of Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

Baker¹,

Obradović-Wochnik²

2016

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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This article explores the convergences and divergence between transitional justice and peacebuilding, by considering some of the recent developments in scholarship and practice. It examines the notion of 'peace' in transitional justice and the idea of 'justice' in peacebuilding. It highlights that transitional justice and peacebuilding often engage with similar or related ideas, though the scholarship in each field has developed largely in parallel to each other, and often without any significant engagement between the fields of inquiry. The article also notes that both fields share other commonalities, insofar as they often neglect questions of capital (political, social, economic) and at times, gender. It is suggested that trying to locate the nexus in the first place draws attention to where peace and justice have actually got to be produced in order for there not to be conflict and violence. This in turn demonstrates that locally, 'peace' and 'justice' do not always look like the 'peace' and 'justice' drawn up by international donors and peacebuilders; and, despite the 'turn to the local' in international relations, it is surprising just how many local and everyday dynamics are (dis)missed as sources of peace and justice, or potential avenues of addressing the past.

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Transitional Justice as Global Project: critical reflections

Cited by 314 publications

References 35 publications

Der vergessene Faktor – Zum Einfluss von Transitional Justice auf die Entwicklung von Rechtsstaatlichkeit in Demokratisierungsprozessen

Der vergessene Faktor – Zum Einfluss von Transitional Justice auf die Entwicklung von Rechtsstaatlichkeit in Demokratisierungsprozessen

Beyond Sexual Violence in Transitional Justice: Political Insecurity as a Gendered Harm

Mapping the Nexus of Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

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