INTD 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Transitional Justice, Retributive Justice, Gacaca Court

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 350
• Professor: Kazue Takamura

Document Summary

Teleological assumptions (transitional justice: dualistic morality (victim-perpetrator binary, grey zones, pre-violence injustice, past and present vulnerability, gacaca courts (rwanda, gendered risks and vulnerabilities. Growing integration of the local in transitional justice. Selective local engagement, oversimplified views of the local, uneven power relations, and local rejection of transitional justice. *establishment of democracy and peace (= a better future without violence) Two distinct contexts: emergence of post-authoritarian societies (late 1980s = the end of the cold war) Transitions to democracy = in response to the political transitions from non-democratic authoritarian regimes in latin america and eastern europe: emergence of post-conflict/genocide societies (bosnian war 1992-95, rwandan genocide 1994) Truth and reconciliation commissions (trc: criminal prosecutions (international tribunals, icc, rights of victims (reparation, healing and civic trust, memories, democratic values (= a better liberal future without violence) Goals = to achieve both justice-seeking and trust-building processes. Local rejection of truth-telling (risks of testimony and speaking, preference for silence) to violence)