A Resilience Approach to Transitional Justice?. Issue 3 (26th May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kastner, Philipp
• Is Part Of: Journal of intervention and statebuilding. Volume 14:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 368
• Page End: 388
• Publication Date: 2020-05-26
• Subjects: Transitional justice -- resilience -- Central African Republic -- legal pluralism -- International Criminal Court; Intervention (International law) -- Periodicals; Nation-building -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Periodicals; Postwar reconstruction -- Periodicals; International cooperation -- Periodicals; 320
• DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2019.1709775
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1750-2977

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Transitional justice, which is typically part of a liberal peacebuilding strategy, often seems distant, ineffective or even counter-productive. The concept of resilience, to which transitional justice discourses and scholarship have remained relatively indifferent, appears useful to explore justice initiatives in conflict or post-conflict situations. This article argues that much can be gained from better understanding the relevance of – and significant risks associated with – resilience thinking in this context. Through a critical approach to resilience, and embedded within a legal-pluralist framework, it examines some of the ways of dealing with political violence, with a particular focus on the Central African Republic.