Divergent ambitions : bracketing the disruptive potential of transitional justice in Belgium
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- Tine Destrooper (UGent)
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- VICTPART (Righting Victim Participation in Transitional Justice - VictPart)
- Abstract
- This chapter compares two attempts to apply transitional justice to Belgium: the special parliamentary commission established in 2020 to analyse Belgium’s colonial past in the Great Lakes region; and the earlier process of designing an educational programme for dealing with societal polarisation. The parliamentary commission was modelled on a truth commission, while the educational programme drew on experiences with using transitional justice tools in conflicted settings in the Global South. Where the first struggled with issues of representation and decoloniality, the second met with scepticism and rejection because transitional justice was understood to apply to the Global South. Inscribed in these responses to transitional justice were therefore the relationship between Belgium and others in the Global South. The chapter demonstrates that in consolidated democracies engaging in transitional justice processes may challenge the legitimacy of existing state institutions and their associated narratives.
- Keywords
- HRC, Transitional Justice, Human Rights Law
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- Destrooper, Tine. “Divergent Ambitions : Bracketing the Disruptive Potential of Transitional Justice in Belgium.” Transitional Justice in Aparadigmatic Contexts : Accountability, Recognition and Disruption, edited by Tine Destrooper et al., Routledge, 2023, pp. 142–60, doi:10.4324/9781003289104-9.
- APA
- Destrooper, T. (2023). Divergent ambitions : bracketing the disruptive potential of transitional justice in Belgium. In T. Destrooper, L. E. Gissel, & K. B. Carlson (Eds.), Transitional justice in aparadigmatic contexts : accountability, recognition and disruption (pp. 142–160). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003289104-9
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- Destrooper, Tine. 2023. “Divergent Ambitions : Bracketing the Disruptive Potential of Transitional Justice in Belgium.” In Transitional Justice in Aparadigmatic Contexts : Accountability, Recognition and Disruption, edited by Tine Destrooper, Line Engbo Gissel, and Kerstin Bree Carlson, 142–60. New York ; London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003289104-9.
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- Destrooper, Tine. 2023. “Divergent Ambitions : Bracketing the Disruptive Potential of Transitional Justice in Belgium.” In Transitional Justice in Aparadigmatic Contexts : Accountability, Recognition and Disruption, ed by. Tine Destrooper, Line Engbo Gissel, and Kerstin Bree Carlson, 142–160. New York ; London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003289104-9.
- Vancouver
- 1.Destrooper T. Divergent ambitions : bracketing the disruptive potential of transitional justice in Belgium. In: Destrooper T, Gissel LE, Carlson KB, editors. Transitional justice in aparadigmatic contexts : accountability, recognition and disruption. New York ; London: Routledge; 2023. p. 142–60.
- IEEE
- [1]T. Destrooper, “Divergent ambitions : bracketing the disruptive potential of transitional justice in Belgium,” in Transitional justice in aparadigmatic contexts : accountability, recognition and disruption, T. Destrooper, L. E. Gissel, and K. B. Carlson, Eds. New York ; London: Routledge, 2023, pp. 142–160.
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