Volume 11 : 1
Editorial: Critical Issues in Transitional Justice – A Sisyphean Exercise
Examining the Criticisms Levelled against Transitional Justice: Towards an Understanding of the State of the Field
After Things Fall Apart: Challenges for Transitional Justice Futures
Failing Victims? The Limits of Transitional Justice in Addressing the Needs of Victims of Violations
Reparations in Transitional Justice: Justice or Political Compromise?
Rethinking Post-Truth Commissions: Empowering Local Capacities to Shape the Post-Truth Commission Discourse
The Socialisation of Transitional Justice: Expanding Justice Theories within the Field
Localised Justice and Structural Transformation: How New Approaches to Transitional Justice Pull in Different Directions
The Enduring Colonial Legacies of Land Dispossessions and the Evolving Property Rights Legal Discourses: Whither Transitional Justice?
Editorial: Critical Issues in Transitional Justice – A Sisyphean Exercise
Examining the Criticisms Levelled against Transitional Justice: Towards an Understanding of the State of the Field
After Things Fall Apart: Challenges for Transitional Justice Futures
Failing Victims? The Limits of Transitional Justice in Addressing the Needs of Victims of Violations
Reparations in Transitional Justice: Justice or Political Compromise?
Rethinking Post-Truth Commissions: Empowering Local Capacities to Shape the Post-Truth Commission Discourse
The Socialisation of Transitional Justice: Expanding Justice Theories within the Field
Localised Justice and Structural Transformation: How New Approaches to Transitional Justice Pull in Different Directions
The Enduring Colonial Legacies of Land Dispossessions and the Evolving Property Rights Legal Discourses: Whither Transitional Justice?
Year
2017
Volume
11
Number
1
Page
83
Language
English
Court
Reference
B. MCGONIGLE LEYH, “The Socialisation of Transitional Justice: Expanding Justice Theories within the Field”, HRILD 2017, nr. 1, 83-95
Recapitulation
This article examines five conceptions of justice that have greatly influenced or shaped transitional justice processes by touching on their appeal as well as the major criticisms they face. It emphasises how the early conceptions of justice predominantly focused on civil and political rights violations and elaborates upon the main critiques of this narrow emphasis. The article then examines the arguments calling for a broader conception of justice and expansion of the traditional transitional justice mandate, looking specifically at recent calls for the facilitation of social and transformative justice. It explores whether the proliferation of justice conceptions has strained the core notion of transitional justice, making it too overstretched and all-encompassing. The aim of the article is to explore the theoretical roles and values assigned to different justice conceptions within transitional justice processes, as well as to shed light on the complex and changing nature of transitional justice over the past few decades, leading to the socialisation of transitional justice.
