“Post-Conflict” Reconstruction, the Crimes of the Powerful and Transitional Justice

Balint, Jennifer; Lasslett, Kristian; Macdonald, Kate

doi:10.13169/statecrime.6.1.0004

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“…An additional set of proposals that is worth looking into and that can be fruitfully imported into discussions about the failed governance of global pandemics and global public health justice is found in the academic literature on state crime and transitional justice. The notion of civic liability or civic responsibility, for instance, is used by state crime scholars like Balint (2008Balint ( , 2014 to conceive of non-individual (i.e., institutional) accountability within contexts of societal redress to mass harm following state crimes and mass atrocities:…”

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COVID-19, global public health justice, and the culture of organized irresponsibility

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2024

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This article deploys the language of risk to offer a sociological perspective on the discourse of responsibility in the context of the governance and mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic. While current debates about global public health justice often tend to overemphasize the role of legal action as a key measure in today’s global public health justice initiatives, the article argues that lack of adequate legal mechanisms – such as a global statute on public health crimes – constitutes only one barrier to the attainment of global public health justice. By and large, the failed administration of public health during global pandemics will not induce criminal prosecution on a worldwide scale and this is not because of lack of adequate legal channels but mostly because of the way in which world risk society reshapes the meaning of responsibility. The article argues that the COVID-19 pandemic is a manufactured risk that is being dealt with within a culture of organized irresponsibility that obfuscates accountability and liability for risk-creation and risk-management and transforms culpability for such risk-creation and risk-management into acquittal. Effective approaches to global public health justice, then, cannot be limited to the introduction of international legal safeguards but need to include a project for the social redistribution of bads and reallocation of global responsibility for risk-creation and risk-management.

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COVID-19, global public health justice, and the culture of organized irresponsibility

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2024

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“…However, in the absence of momentum regarding such replacement, it may be best positioned 'at the radical end of a transitional justice continuum' and remain in need of a constructive dimension. 52 It remains necessary to address what is the 'restoration', 'transition', or 'transformation' involved in addressing historical abuses of Western societies and Christian churches. 'Restoration' as a return to some prior state of right relationship may be inappropriate and inapplicable in the context of historical abuses.…”

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2023

Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State

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“…The latter can be understood as the broad range of mechanisms and practices that makes it possible to transition from a period of massive persecution or related abuses to a more human rights protective aftermath. Notably, criminology has focused mostly on the study of atrocities while transitional justice has been particularly concerned with the process that follows such crimes, but such a distinction between a period of turmoil and a peaceful aftermath is rigid and largely artificial as both periods are strongly related (Balint et al, 2017).…”

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Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime

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2022

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More than 75 million people were killed in wars, dictatorships and civil conflicts in the 20th century alone. To date, states and international organizations have been regarded as the reliable entities for addressing these atrocities. However, these agencies are often perpetrators (or bystanders) that even deny their crimes. Based on a southern criminology approach, the article examines whether challenging atrocities becomes more feasible if organizations led by the victim-survivors themselves take precedence over established state-based or international entities. The key hypothesis is that the degree of effective resistance is directly related to the degree of victims’ involvement in the process. Moreover, this article will go beyond the state of the art (based on victim participation) by advocating a victim-driven model, where victims’ networks play a leading role that is independent from the state and international organizations.

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“Post-Conflict” Reconstruction, the Crimes of the Powerful and Transitional Justice

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COVID-19, global public health justice, and the culture of organized irresponsibility

COVID-19, global public health justice, and the culture of organized irresponsibility

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