Transnational Transitional Justice and Reconciliation: The Participation of Conflict-generated Diasporas in Addressing the Legacies of Mass Violence

Haider, Huma

doi:10.1093/jrs/feu002

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“…Causal mechanisms and diaspora mobilization have also been explored in civil war contexts (Adamson 2013), though less so in post-conflict settings. Here, along with returnees and the local population, diaspora can play a crucial role in transitional justice, particularly in light of decreased efforts by the international community in helping to rebuild returnee communities (Duthie 2011;Haider 2014). Oftentimes, returnees in the post-conflict context belong predominantly to the ethnic minority (Toal andDahlman 2011).…”

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Who chooses to remember? Diaspora participation in memorialization initiatives

Karabegović

2019

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Diaspora actors demonstrate their ability to play a role in a variety of political and social processes in their homelands, including transitional justice. Transnational diaspora memorialization initiatives have become embedded and sustained within different contexts. This paper examines how the causal mechanism of coordination affects memorialization initiatives. It compares memorialization efforts in two localities in Bosnia and Herzegovina with different levels of coordination between diaspora, returnees, and local institutional actors. Centralized coordination with the help of a homeland institution enriches existing memory narratives and aims to forward transitional justice. Memorialization and commemorative practices initiated by diaspora without homeland institutional backing can lead to coordination among a more diverse set of actors, ultimately fostering new, alternative, and more inclusive memory narratives.

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Section: Coordination As a Causal Mechanismmentioning

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Who chooses to remember? Diaspora participation in memorialization initiatives

Karabegović

2019

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…To be more specific, the ICTR tried a total of 75 cases, whereas the gacaca courts have tried 2 million people with appellate hearings ending in 2012 (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, n.d.). Participation in gacaca is said to have fostered justice and reconciliation for survivors-both those who were victims and those who were offenders (Haider, 2014;Pozen, Neugebauer, & Ntaganira, 2014). This is often credited to the extent to which members of the local communities played important roles in the judicial process.…”

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“…The literature that does exist focuses almost solely on the role of the diaspora in fueling insurgency, as well as further promoting or negating conflict and division within the home country. This narrow research focus on the diaspora is problematic as issues of ethnicity and politics within Rwanda often have a residual effect on issues of ethnicity and politics experienced by the diaspora (Haider, 2014;Mohamoud, 2005;Owen, 2009).…”

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The Rwandan diaspora in Canada and the United States: reconciliation and justice

Marson

2018

Contemporary Justice Review

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“…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). Diasporas can be involved in establishment of legal tribunals, as did the US-based Iraqi community for Iraq's special tribunal (Haider 2014).…”

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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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Transnational Transitional Justice and Reconciliation: The Participation of Conflict-generated Diasporas in Addressing the Legacies of Mass Violence

Cited by 42 publications

References 22 publications

Who chooses to remember? Diaspora participation in memorialization initiatives

Who chooses to remember? Diaspora participation in memorialization initiatives

The Rwandan diaspora in Canada and the United States: reconciliation and justice

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

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