(Re)Distributing Transition

Miller, Zinaida

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“…Preoccupied with the continuous failures of different transitional policies, a rising number of critics began to question the limits of these interventions. They moved beyond scrutinizing isolated mechanisms, perspectives or cases (Miller, 2013) towards investigating the limits of the discipline itself as part of a global project of liberal peace (Evans, 2016; Fourlas, 2015; Nagy, 2008). This relatively recent critique focuses on problems that have been continuously marginalized by some transitional justice scholars and practitioners, irrespective of their stance on criminal accountability.…”

Section: What Is Never At Stake In the Punishment-versus-impunity Debatesmentioning

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“…Hence, the field’s idea of violence was associated primarily with the phenomenon of state-led or non-state political violence (Moon, 2006), mainly ‘violations of civil and political rights’ (Laplante, 2008: 333). The problem is that by focusing on these violations, criminal trials, truth commissions and reparation programmes have continuously disregarded economic (Fletcher and Weinstein, 2002; Miller, 2013; Sharp, 2014), gendered (Aoláin, 2009; Bell et al, 2004) and racialized violations (Humphrey, 2002; Wilson, 2001) that are ‘historically informed and rooted in ongoing experiences of social marginalization’ (Gready and Robins, 2014: 10). 6…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As the Brazilian case illustrates, the problem with this formulation of violence is the risk of restricting the concept far too much, excluding from its scope other ‘violences’ that do not fit in the category of intentional, cyclical and exceptional wrongdoing. The focus on impunity risks neglecting other forms of injustices that could be potentially involved ‘in the causes … of conflict’ (Mani, 2005: 27) or, quite simply, be responsible for scenarios of ‘unsustainable peace, unequal transitions and unending violence’ (Miller, 2013: 379). It is in this sense that the fight against impunity – standing in opposition to the silence on, and political obliviousness to, violations – actively reproduces its own silence and obliviousness.…”

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On demons and dreamers: Violence, silence and the politics of impunity in the Brazilian Truth Commission

Furtado

2017

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Measures towards post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice have historically relied on the merging of the concepts of silence, violence and impunity in order to create a single promise of justice. Scholars and practitioners in the field usually defend a trifold agenda of breaking the silence about violations of human rights, denouncing systematic violence in the past and fighting impunity as the only way of ensuring that violence never happens again. This trope was mobilized in Brazil in 2014, when the report of the country’s National Truth Commission (CNV) was released. However, in the Brazilian case, truth-seeking also produced its own form of ‘silence’. Whereas the CNV commendably denounced 377 perpetrators as the ‘demons’ responsible for implementing a state of terror during the last dictatorship (1964–1985), it also created a depoliticized and victimized idea of leftist militants as mere dreamers who fought for liberty and democracy in the past. By representing leftist militants as freedom fighters, the CNV silenced their fundamental ideas (and actions) regarding the concept of revolutionary violence and its radical programme of structural change. In this article, I provide an explanation that connects the CNV’s ‘silencing’ of this political project to the unreflective merging between the concepts of silence, violence and impunity in the literature. Via a narrative analysis of the CNV’s report and a critique of transitional justice debates, I argue that the silence on the political project of the radical left in Brazil echoes transitional justice’s silence about the complexities of violence in general

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2017

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Transitional Justice and Economic Policy

Urueña

Prada-Uribe

2018

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

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The field of transitional justice has faced several challenges in its relatively short life span. The latest of these challenges is the claim for broadening its scope to incorporate social justice– and development-related matters. And in just a few years, the possibility and adequacy of thicker or more holistic conceptions of transitional justice have become mainstream. Nonetheless, since their beginnings these new approaches have been subject to criticism from both within and outside the field. This article describes the trajectory of the scholarly debate on expanding transitional justice to encompass socioeconomic concerns, as well as its main limitations. It starts by exploring the main reasons that led to the historical marginalization of socioeconomic concerns in transitional justice theory and practice. It then considers the rationale for the implementation of broader approaches to transitional justice and closes with a discussion of the main challenges and limitations these proposals face.

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(Re)Distributing Transition

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On demons and dreamers: Violence, silence and the politics of impunity in the Brazilian Truth Commission

On demons and dreamers: Violence, silence and the politics of impunity in the Brazilian Truth Commission

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