Transitional Justice 2001F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Johan Galtung, Liberal Democracy, International Criminal Court
3 Nov 2016
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Longer-term development: setting up conditions that will address upcoming issues in the long run. Post-conflict reconstruction has the potential to remodel the way people interact with each other. Colonialism: congo: 1885 to 1908, 10 mln killed, fiji: arrival of the british to farm cotton using 65,000 indentured labourers. Post-second world war: victors took it upon themselves to resettle displaced peoples and fix the economies, division between 4 victorious powers, creation of the imf and the world bank. Post cold war: what was allowed within borders, former yugoslavia, rwanda, etc. faced severe issues, opinion that whatever happens in a country is its own business. Focus has been on what will benefit the people in power, not what will benefit the people who have been affected. Settler colonial states still use structures of inequality and oppression. Often a combination of all three above. Reconstruction needs to deal with the fall-out from both. Meet the needs of the affected populations.
