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06 Sep Generations of Victim Engagement: Towards an Encompassing Analytical Framework for Understanding Victims’ Roles in Transitional Justice Processes
grassroots justice actors’ driving this expansion of transitional justice to a broad range of contexts is similar to what I referred to as the protagonism and agenda-setting power of the first generation of transitional justice. They are different from it though, in the sense that the element of resistance has become front and centre, not just in terms of using transitional justice as a means to resist injustice itself, but also in terms of re-imagining victim engagement in transitional justice in ways that resist the injustice implicit in narrow and...
12 Sep Contemporary International Criminal Law After Critique Symposium: embodied justice through praxes of abolition feminisms
privilege of losing hope.” Raya Ziada, Pikara Magazine 2024 We are grateful for the possibility to offer reflections on embodied justice through praxes of abolition feminisms, such as transformative justice, somatics, care and grief tending, as part of this symposium’s engagement with abolition and international (criminal) justice. In this piece, we discuss how we approach ‘after critique’ as a liberatory inquiry into how justice feels when it is embodied, and how we have sought to bring embodiment to international (criminal) justice work. We understand this liberatory inquiry as a tactic...
26 May Affective Justice Symposium: Law’s Emotional (Im)possibilities
their roles as perpetrators in 1971. The ethnographic contexts in Affective Justice beckons me to compare it to those of the contexts in Bangladesh and to call into question two of law’s emotional (im)possibilities where affective dissonances and global geopolitics is at play. Emotional (Im)possibility: What about Traitors? While the affective circuits of international justice have been focussed on the perpetrator or victim, it has little to say about the ambiguous affective dissonances, its emotional (im)possibilities with that of the figure of the traitor. Alongside the figure of the wounded...
15 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Giving Politics Its Due–Late Reflections on Ruti Teitel’s Transitional Justice
publication of Transitional Justice 20 years ago, the field of transitional justice has moved in a different direction, however. As the field became increasingly institutionalised and mainstreamed, a narrowly normative, legalistic and apolitical – even anti-political – understanding of transitional justice emerged as the dominant model of transitional justice (widely adopted not only by scholars and IGOs, such as the UN and the EU, but also by influential NGOs such as the International Centre for Transitional Justice). Several developments have contributed to this ‘normative turn in transitional justice’. At the...
27 May Affective Justice Symposium: Reflecting on Affective Justice
[Edwin Bikundo is a Senior Lecturer at the Griffith University Law School, Gold Coast, Australia with teaching and research interests in public international law and legal theory.] Affective Justice, the new book by noted international criminal justice expert Kamari Maxine Clark is a deep, broad and profound study, mediation on and explication of the International Criminal Court’s engagement with Africa and it’s diaspora – broadly speaking – and likewise the engagement of Africa with the International Criminal Court (the ICC). It does this intriguingly by examining and explaining how ‘justice...
29 May Affective Justice Symposium: Other Geographies, Other Pushbacks–Affective Justice as a Diagnosis for International Criminal Law
...withdrawals, and countercampaigns – as we can see with these examples from the situation in Afghanistan, where Trump’s personal lawyer relied upon a concerted social media campaign to fund his NGO team’s trip to The Hague. The analytic potential of Affective Justice can be extended out beyond the ‘Pan-Africanist pushback’ that serves as the focus of her book. While Pompeo’s and Sekulow’s expressions register quite different responses than the African resistance and reattribution that Clarke traces, which her book links to broader colonial and postcolonial histories of violence, the affective...
11 Aug Doing Justice to History Symposium: Towards Asking Better Questions within the Field of International Criminal Justice
practices of international criminal justice processes to advance their strategic agendas; and second, a critical perspective concerned with contextualising the historical narratives constructed within international criminal judgments and viewing them in more humble terms as moments of discursive beginning rather than instances of historical closure. Reflections on the Symposium Turning to the contributions to this symposium, I am grateful that each of the contributors has focused on different themes within the book. In this section, my aim is less to offer a response than to continue the conversation by offering...
29 Jul The Right to Access to Justice is Denied to Some Two Thirds of the World’s Population. How Can We Close the Global Justice Gap?
life, this justice gap represents a huge problem. ‘Alternative’ justice system (like bodies made up of traditional elders or religious leaders) have the potential to help fill this gap – but are often misunderstood by practitioners and policymakers. We want to change that. The lived realities of many people in the world reveal that customary and informal justice systems can close the justice gap. After all, access to justice is not a luxury issue or aspirational good. It is something that we all need. In fact, under international law, access...
09 Jul Symposium on Symposium on Art, Aesthetics and International Justice: For the Love of Art (and Justice)
the law and the sensation of (in)justice. Some things are said best when left unsaid. While aesthetic theory can help add, find, or relocate complexity in international justice, it also confronts us with the limits of our international system to provide such complex justice. Resistance Next, I turn to a dimension of aesthetic theory and art that does not prominently figure in Marina’s book but is intimately entangled with any notion of justice: art as a form of critique and resistance. Art is very suitable as a subversive method and...
08 Dec One Year After the Fall of Assad, 1,101 Syrians Speak Out About Their Demands for Justice
non-discrimination 15% prioritised rule of law 13% linked justice to peace and nation-building This framing departs from conventional transitional justice discourse, where accountability is often put first. For Syrians, justice begins with the restoration of dignity, protection, and equality before the law. 2. Justice is Essential for Peace A near-unanimous 91% said justice is necessary to achieve peace. Syrians reject familiar diplomatic arguments that accountability is destabilising or politically premature. For them, justice is the stabilising force. 3. Accountability is Indispensable When asked to rank transitional justice mechanisms: 63% selected...