Abstract
Interest has recently increased in transformative justice. While transformative justice research offers an important contribution to transitional justice, I discuss challenges in its implementation. Drawing on research on affected communities and practitioners at the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación in Peru, I question whether there are tensions between addressing micro and macro causes of conflict and in representing and integrating survivors and ex-combatants. While scholars and practitioners have importantly linked transformative justice to the reconfiguration of macro socio-economic structural injustices, more attention is needed to micro drivers of conflict. I outline a tension for a desire for more established punitive justice (prosecution of perpetrators and reparations for survivors) and the need to engage and reintegrate ex-combatants. These challenges are acute in conflict transitions, where transitional justice has taken on more expansive goals of peace-building. More recognition is also important of lingering legacies of violence and practical impediments.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 701-720 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 13 Jun 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2018 |
Keywords
- conflict transformation
- Latin America
- memory
- peace-building
- reconciliation
- Transitional justice
