Transitional Justice and Property: Inextricably Linked

Abstract

This article analyzes the different ways in which transitional justice has dealt with demands over property restitution and redistribution. To do this, it presents a review of academic literature regarding how to define reparation, the justifications for restitution, and the debate regarding property redistribution as a part of peace negotiations. The article ends with a synthesis of the different critiques raised to the ways in which restitution and redistribution of property have been legally structured. These critiques include foregrounding neoliberalism (as an economic ideal and a governance project) in transitional justice, unveiling gender biases as well as demands for more comprehensive redistribution in the aftermath of civil war. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Volume 17 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

Radio Silences: The ‘Kidnapped Voices’ and the Production of Political Memory in Colombia (1994–2018)

“…140 Rather than judging its content, I am interested in exploring its entanglement with questions of political economy, factional strife and the distribution of resources. 141 For there is more than what meets the eye of the casual observer of 'radio Colombia' in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum. In this lofty installation, we hear echoes of the persistence of the far right in Colombia and beyond.…”