Restorative Justice in Transitional SettingsKerry Clamp Restorative justice is increasingly being applied to settings characterized by large-scale violence and human rights abuses. While many embrace this development as an important step in attempts to transform protracted conflict, there are a number of conceptual challenges in transporting restorative justice from a democratic setting to one which has been affected by mass victimisation or civil war. These include responding to the seriousness and scale of harms that have been caused, the blurred boundaries between victims and offenders, and the difficulties associated with holding someone to account and compelling reparative activities. Despite reams of paper being devoted to defining restorative justice within democratic settings (where the concept first emerged), restorative scholars have been slow to comment on the integration of restorative justice into the transitional justice discourse. Restorative Justice in Transitional Settings brings together a number of leading scholars from around the world to respond to this gap by developing and further articulating restorative justice for transitional settings. These scholars push the boundaries of restorative justice to seek more effective approaches to addressing the causes and consequences of conflict and oppression in these diverse contexts. Each chapter highlights a limitation with current conceptions of restorative justice in the transitional justice literature and then suggests a way in which the limitation might be overcome. This book has strong interdisciplinary value and will be of interest to criminologists, legal scholars, and those engaged with international relations and peace treaties. |
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... involved in human rights abuses. She is also the chair of the editorial board for the European Forum for Restorative Justice, a role that she has held since January 2011. The editorial board produces four newsletters per annum which ...
... involved can make identification difficult. Even in instances where it is possible to identify specific individuals, it is difficult to separate the act from the larger political environment in which it took place. As Zwi et al. (2002) ...
... involvement of government officials is conspicuous« (2011: 12). This situation is further complicated in that the ... involved. Unfortunately, this does not always occur, and there is a tension within the established democratic ...
... the strategies employed in responding to. anormal«. crime guided by a restorative framework in established democracies need revising within societies emerging from periods of conflict and oppression, given the complexities involved.
Kerry Clamp. from periods of conflict and oppression, given the complexities involved in the motivations for and characteristics of the. aconflict«. Only limited analysis exists on this topic within the available literature written by ...
Contents
restorative justice concepts | |
Exploring restorative justice in situations of political | |
the missing link | |
the state as a stakeholder in postconflict | |
the current limits of restorative | |
the problem of hthe | |
Harmonising global criminal justice for peacebuilding | |
Learning to scale up restorative justice | |
When does transitional justice begin and end? Colonised | |
Towards a transformative vision of restorative justice as | |
Index | |