War Veterans in Croatia

Sokolić, Ivor

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90841-0_6

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“…These comments reflect that the legalistic understanding of transitional justice is far removed from everyday experience and detached from ordinary realities. Similar opinions were expressed across most groups and can be found in other transitional justice research (Sokolić, 2019). They reflect the dominance of legal discourses in transitional justice, which is often alien to local publics (Gready and Robins, 2014: 343).…”

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“…The second and third questions have a strong normative element, since much of the public in the Balkans, other than in Serb-dominated areas, does believe it was the right decision to establish the ICTY, but they do not believe it was implemented well (Sokolić, 2019: 102). Likewise, most individuals support fact-finding and reconciliation, but may disagree over how it is being done or what facts need to be unearthed.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Claims to ignorance as a form of participation in transitional justice

Sokolić¹

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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Transitional justice is premised on participation that allows local publics to construct, critique and have some ownership over the process. The current scholarship assumes that individuals openly express their views of the process, or that they remain silent. The scholarship has neglected a third, significant form of participation: active withholding of views by saying ‘I don’t know’. This article examines such claims to ignorance and argues that they can provide insight into participation. While both qualitative and quantitative researchers of transitional justice have observed a pervasive pattern of high ‘don’t know’ responses, such claims to ignorance have not been studied. This article develops a theoretical framework that shows that ‘don’t know’ responses are a valuable source of information and argues that they are often an expression of a lack of willingness to respond, rather than genuine ignorance. Drawing on an original corpus of data collected through inter-ethnic focus groups and surveys conducted in four former Yugoslav countries, the study demonstrates how claims to ignorance are constructed as novel manifestations of resistance, restraint or disentitlement. These point to a rejection of transitional justice, which needs to be addressed if individuals are to feel like legitimate participants in the process.

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Claims to ignorance as a form of participation in transitional justice

Sokolić¹

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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“…On the other hand, some scholars have focused on within-case analyses to understand top-down and bottom-up dynamics of transitional justice and their relationship with memory (see e.g. Conley, 2019; Sokolić, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Different mechanisms, same result: Remembering the liberation war in Mozambique

Bueno

2021

Memory Studies

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Even though scholars have made substantial contributions in connecting the fields of transitional justice and memory studies, important questions remain unanswered. The question of sequencing is one of them. How does a certain TJ mechanism condition the implementation of subsequent mechanisms and how together they shape memory narratives in a given society? This article builds on the case of Mozambique. Soon after the signing of the General Peace Agreement in 1992, the Frelimo-led government approved Amnesty Law 15/92 and with it, the past was to be left in the past. Such a choice was different from the one taken by Samora Machel—Mozambique’s first president—between 1975 and 1982. By promoting a quasi-truth commission, Machel revisited Mozambique’s colonial past and brought comprometidos’ actions into the open. This article finds that whether the government opened up about the past or sought to leave it behind, the result has been the same: the celebratory reproduction of the liberation war narrative. Resorting to path dependence and critical junctures, this study explains the ways in which such a narrative has become hegemonic throughout the last four decades.

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War Veterans in Croatia

Cited by 2 publications

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Claims to ignorance as a form of participation in transitional justice

Claims to ignorance as a form of participation in transitional justice

Different mechanisms, same result: Remembering the liberation war in Mozambique

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