Transitional Justice Beyond the Normative: Towards a Literary Theory of Political Transitions

Dube, Siphiwe Ignatius

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“…Literary works, it has been observed, can make good on "the commitment to speak about individual experience" rather to subordinate all such experience to a national narrative. 80 They also "create new constellations between the present and the past and make visible continuities and discontinuities, recognitions and misrecognitions." 81 Hegemonic pressure for truth and reconciliation certainly convinces some people in post-conflict societies to enter into the juridical modes of testimony and memorial but it also can force grievances into genres including fiction, poetry, allegory, and satire that often withhold unambiguous truth-claims, or at least keep such claims closer to the vest.…”

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To Ruin the Repairs: Milton, Allegory, Transitional Justice

Warren

2016

Law, Culture & the Humanities

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International legal theorists posit historical moments when conceptions of justice are “constituted by, and constitutive of, the transition” (Teitel). This article uses the framework of transitional justice to understand the cultural work of political allegory in the spring of 1660 on the eve of the English Restoration. Insights from transitional justice (1.) help explain how Anglican royalists convinced wary Presbyterians to assent to a restoration of the monarchy; (2.) permit a new reading of Milton’s allegory of Sin and Death in Paradise Lost; and (3.) facilitate a more critical history of the framework of transitional justice itself.

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To Ruin the Repairs: Milton, Allegory, Transitional Justice

Warren

2016

Law, Culture & the Humanities

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“…Por último, conviene añadir cómo diversos autores se han preocupado por desarrollar una teoría de la justicia transicional en términos de teoría política, tal y como sucede con Caney (2006), Dube (2011), Grodsky (2009), Rincón (2010), Hansen (2011) o Winter (2013. Todos ellos se basan en hechos, datos, mediciones y estudios de caso, y tienen en común el concepto de la justicia planteado por Rawls (1971) 2 .…”

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La paz con los grupos paramilitares y las FARC-EP: diferencias entre dos procesos transicionales en Colombia (2005-2016)

Espinosa-Díaz

Sierra

2022

Rev. Estud. Polít.

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El siguiente trabajo analiza los acuerdos de paz suscritos en Colombia, primero con los grupos paramilitares de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), en 2005, y después con las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP), en 2016. Lo anterior, para hacer especial énfasis en los diferentes marcos de justicia transicional que ofrece cada uno de los procesos. Tras una revisión teórica se proponen cuatro aspectos que abordar para comparar cada contexto: a) el papel de la comunidad internacional; b) las relaciones de poder entre actores; c) la concurrencia de una agenda política de negociación, y d) la participación de la sociedad civil en el proceso. Esto se suma a un conjunto de veinte variables que van desde la naturaleza de las sanciones o las sentencias condenatorias hasta la participación de la ciudadanía, el tipo de reconocimiento de la responsabilidad o aspectos como la duración o el presupuesto. Así, aunque en la Ley de Justicia y Paz (2005) se aprecian estándares mínimos de justicia transicional, es el Acuerdo con las FARC-EP en donde existe un compromiso mayor para con la verdad, la justicia, la reparación y la no repetición.

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“…Emotional transformations become important markers of the passage of time, helping signal clear water between the crimes of the past and the inauguration of a new political order. As others have noted, these transmutations are underpinned by a master narrative that depicts liberalizing change as an intrinsic good and militates against the construction of alternative political formations (Dube 2011; Scott 2014).…”

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“Why don’t I forgive? They didn’t ask for forgiveness!”: Manich Msamah and Tunisia’s Politics of Unforgiveness

Rigg

2022

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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Recent transitional justice scholarship has explored the role of emotions during periods of political transition. Scholars have taken negative emotions as both legitimate responses to past crimes and as supports to the pursuit of justice in the present. This paper argues that feelings circulate across a wide array of individuals, things, and processes that often sit apart from the formal, judicial spaces of transitional justice. To make this argument, I consider the Tunisian campaign Manich Msamah (I Do Not Forgive) and its articulation of an affect of unforgiveness in resistance to the proposed Economic and Financial Reconciliation Law. Formed in 2015, the campaign came about in response to the law and efforts, under the pretext of “reconciliation,” to return to public life figures from the repressive regime of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Drawing on affect theory, I argue that unforgiveness was stuck to particular individuals (figures from the old regime and circulated between a community of unforgiving activists), things (public spaces, posters, T-shirts and the ephemera of protest) and processes (accountability and substantive forms of justice). I argue that an affect of unforgiveness thus aided activists not only in their resistance to state-led reconciliation but also helped imagine alternative paths to justice in Tunisia.

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Transitional Justice Beyond the Normative: Towards a Literary Theory of Political Transitions

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To Ruin the Repairs: Milton, Allegory, Transitional Justice

To Ruin the Repairs: Milton, Allegory, Transitional Justice

La paz con los grupos paramilitares y las FARC-EP: diferencias entre dos procesos transicionales en Colombia (2005-2016)

“Why don’t I forgive? They didn’t ask for forgiveness!”: Manich Msamah and Tunisia’s Politics of Unforgiveness

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