Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
17 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Building upon Ruti Teitel’s Seminal Work–Towards a Transitional Justice Narrative
[Valeria Vegh Weis is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin an Associate Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and a Professor of Criminology at Buenos Aires University .] Introduction Re-reading Ruti Teitel’s Transitional Justice makes for an even more moving experience than expected. The book, written nearly 20 years ago, set the basis for a ground-breaking field of study, bringing to light important legal, political, and ethical dilemmas such as truth versus justice and reparations for victims versus structural inequality, and even suggesting possible ways...
26 Aug Rohingya Symposium: Justice Out of Reach–The Need to Better Connect Accountability Proceedings to Atrocity Survivors
activities with the affected communities”, reliable information is anything but regular, and rumors run rampant through the camps. The possibility of holding international criminal hearings closer to victims is not a new one, yet its serious consideration – for both the ICC, and for other institutions pursuing justice for the Rohingya – is long overdue. The cottage industry established in The Hague around international criminal justice is a pleasure for practicing international law professionals, who can move between institutions as their careers advance, but is failing to serve those for...
16 Sep Transitional Justice Symposium: Teitel’s Conceptual Revolution–Locating Law in Shifting Political Ecologies
ecological thinking. Academics across diverse fields are also coming to recognize the critical importance of inter-disciplinary scholarship, especially when we are trying to address wicked problems like institutionalized violence and injustice (even as academic structures continue to impede inter-disciplinary collaboration). Transitional Justice (the book), in this regard, prefigured transitional justice (the field), as one formed through multilateral conversations between scholars of history, political science, literature, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, law, and of course the communities of activists, writers and artists who were building the field in practice all along. Although...
09 Sep Libya and International Justice Symposium: Justice Delayed, A Promise Betrayed?
I witnessed in Benghazi in February 2011 was the long search for justice for the families of victims of the single worst atrocity of Gaddafi’s Libya, the Abu Salim prison massacre in 1996. Many key figures participating in those demonstrations that later tipped into an armed uprising against the Gaddafi regime had a legal background. Several were lawyers or judges. They were adamant they wanted a different Libya, one that included a justice system anchored in the rule of law and respect for human rights. The National Transitional Council (NTC),...
24 Aug Rohingya Symposium: Why Accountability Should Be at the Heart of Policy on Myanmar–Applying the Principles Against Impunity
be sustainable peace, nation-building, and social cohesion without justice and accountability. Numerous case-studies illustrate the point, including in ASEAN, of which Myanmar is a member. A colleague recently talked to me about the 2019 Indonesian elections, which were contested between Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto. I asked her why Subianto, who as a former Lieutenant General in the Army had been implicated in alleged serious human rights violations, including the enforced disappearance of pro-democracy activists, was so popular? She replied that, because he had never faced justice, this had contributed...