Project VICTPART: Righting Victim Participation in Transitional Justice - VictPart
2019-07-01 – 2024-12-31
- Abstract
The question of how to serve justice, facilitate peaceful transitions and empower victims of past large-scale abuses is about as old as the field of transitional justice (TJ) itself. Increasingly, academics and practitioners are turning to participatory approaches as a promising way to make advances regarding these issues. An oft-cited benefit of victim participation in TJ processes is that it allegedly increases the legitimacy of these processes by rendering them more locally relevant, and that it empowers participants.
However, little is known about how to organize this participation in practice or under which conditions alleged benefits (for individual victims-participants or for society at large) are likely to materialize. As a result, participation is often organized in an 'add-victims-and-stir' way, with little critical reflection about potential unforeseen or long-term effects.
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- Miscellaneous
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Queering Transitional Justice (Podcast episode with Pascha Bueno-Hansen and Caitlin Biddolph)
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Learning from the past? How the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, civil society initiatives and survivor stories shape young Cambodians’ understanding of non-recurrence
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Literary writing in Syria : challenging the erasure and invisibilisation of violence through literature
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Transitional justice and the struggle for reparations for slavery and its ongoing legacies in the United States : Joyce Hope Scott in conversation with Cira Pallí-Asperó and Tine Destrooper
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Transformative justice and the need for a multi-dimensional understanding of impact
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- Miscellaneous
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Stitching memories : embroidery in Shatila (Podcast)
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- Miscellaneous
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Re-imagining memorialization and documentation in Afghanistan (Podcast)
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- Miscellaneous
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Victim leadership and mobilization in Turkey and Tunisia (Podcast)
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- Miscellaneous
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Victim Participation as Labor (Podcast with Leila Ullrich)
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Generations of Victim Engagement: Towards an Encompassing Analytical Framework for Understanding Victims’ Roles in Transitional Justice Processes