Colleen Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colleen Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5861-094X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transitional Justice in an Age of Resurgent Authoritarianism
Reflexive Engagement with Transitional Justice
Abolition, scholar-activism, and deterrence: Reflections on Tommie Shelby’s The Idea of Abolition
In The Idea of Prison Abolition , philosopher Tommie Shelby critically analyzes the case for prison abolition advanced by scholar-activists such as Angela Davis. Abolition is understood as the dismantling and permanent abandonment of incarceration as a method of responding to a social problem like crime. In Shelby's view, abolitionists do not successfully show that prisons must be abolished. Prisons for him retain a necessary and morally defensib…
How to End a War: Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair
How and when should we end a war? What place should the pathways to a war's end have in war planning and decision-making? This volume treats the topic of ending war as part and parcel of how wars begin and how they are fought – a unique, complex problem, worthy of its own conversation. New essays by leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of philosophical ethics, international relations, and military law reflect on the problem and show t…
Transitional justice for historical injustice
This chapter explores possibilities for transitional justice for historical injustice, or temporally distant violence. It can also refer to temporally extended abuse. We focus our discussion on two prominent examples of political violence in the past that reverberates into the present: the slavery in the Americas and European colonialism. Descendants of enslaved Africans in the Americas experience structural, state and interpersonal violence and …
Decolonizing Transitional Justice: Soft, Radical or Beyond Reform
Practices of knowing and being are not isolable; they are mutually implicated.We don't obtain knowledge by standing outside the world; we know because we are part of the world.We are part of the world in its differential becoming.The separation of epistemology from ontology is a reverberation of a metaphysics that assumes an inherent difference between human and nonhuman, subject and object, mind and body, matter and discourse
Which consequences matter in risk analysis and disaster assessment
Interactive Justice in Transitional Justice: A Dynamic Framework
This article develops a new dynamic framework for the normative evaluation of processes of transitional justice capable of integrating instrumental and noninstrumental justice‐based assessments grounded on concerns of “interactive justice.” Interactive justice is realized in or through institutional processes that treat people in ways appropriate to their status as institutional role occupants. Analyzing interactive justice in transitional justic…
Sovereignty, territory, and the legitimacy of the international order
In The Shifting Border, Ayelet Shachar (2020) argues that the exercise of sovereign power through border regimes no longer tracks territorial boundaries. In my commentary, I first argue that Shachar’s analysis implicitly calls into question the legitimacy of the international order. I then raise the worry that the logic which severs the link between the exercise of sovereignty and territory is the same logic that can be used to justify injustice …
Empirical Predictive Modeling Approach to Quantifying Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
Conventionally, natural hazard scholars quantify social vulnerability based on social indicators to manifest the extent to which locational communities are susceptible to adverse impacts of natural hazard events and are prone to limited or delayed recoveries. They usually overlook the different geographical distributions of social vulnerability at different hazard intensities and in distinct response and recovery phases, however. In addition, con…
Worldwide Predictions of Earthquake Casualty Rates with Seismic Intensity Measure and Socioeconomic Data: A Fragility-Based Formulation
This paper presents a fragility-based Bayesian formulation to predict earthquake casualty rates for countries worldwide. The earthquake casualty rate of a community is defined as the probability that a person in the community is killed or injured given an intensity measure of the earthquake at the site of the community. Casualty data of 902 earthquakes worldwide from 2013 to 2017, information on population distributions, and the national socioeco…
Introduction to the Symposium on Sabine Roeser’s Risk, Technology, and Moral Emotions
Religion & Transitional Justice
Transitional justice refers to the process of dealing with human rights abuses committed during the course of ongoing conflict or repression, where such processes are established as a society aims to move toward a better state, and where a constitutive element of that better state includes democracy. A philosophical theory of transitional justice articulates what the moral criteria or standards are that processes of transitional justice must sati…
On theorizing transitional justice: Responses to Walker, Hull, Metz and Hellsten
Transitional justice encompasses a global body of scholarship and practice that concentrates on responses to large-scale wrongdoing in the context of an attempted shift from conflict and/or repression. In my book, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (2017) I argue that transitional justice is a distinctive type of justice. Transitional justice requires the just pursuit of societal transformation. I define transformation relationall…
The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice
Many countries have attempted to transition to democracy following conflict or repression, but the basic meaning of transitional justice remains hotly contested. In this book, Colleen Murphy analyses transitional justice - showing how it is distinguished from retributive, corrective, and distributive justice - and outlines the ethical standards which societies attempting to democratize should follow. She argues that transitional justice involves …
Political reconciliation, the rule of law, and truces
Nir Eisikovits argues in A Theory of Truces that most contemporary conflicts wind down in a much more piecemeal fashion than our theorizing about the morality of ending wars suggests. Pauses in violence are achieved by securing agreement on narrow questions. Moreover, rather than hoping to do away with violence, theorizing would do best, he writes, to take as its starting point the fact of warfare as part of the human condition. Eisikovits aims t…
Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Integrated Solutions
Political Reconciliation, Jus Post Bellum and Asymmetric Conflict
This article concentrates on asymmetrical civil war, one common type of contemporary conflict. My aim is to articulate some of the normative jus post bellum guidelines that should be followed in ending this kind of asymmetrical conflict, and the ideal of just peace that should inform the development of such guidelines. I argue that questions surrounding the just ending and aftermath of asymmetrical conflict should be answered relationally, that i…
Perceptions of HIV/Aids leaders about faith-based organisations’ influence on HIV/Aids stigma in South Africa
The extent of the HIV pandemic-particularly in the hardest-hit countries, including South Africa-has prompted a call for greater engagement of all groups, including faith-based organisations (FBOs). Although FBOs are known to play a substantial role in providing care and support to those affected by HIV and AIDS, empirical evidence in regard to their actions in the broader context of stigma is limited. A qualitative, key-informant survey was cond…
Assessing capability instead of achieved functionings in risk analysis
A capability approach has been proposed to risk analysis, where risk is conceptualized as the probability that capabilities are reduced. Capabilities refer to the genuine opportunities of individuals to achieve valuable doings and beings, such as being adequately nourished. Such doings and beings are called functionings. A current debate in risk analysis and other fields where a capability approach has been developed concerns whether capabilities…
Evaluating the Source of the Risks Associated with Natural Events
Gauging the societal impacts of natural disasters using a capability approach
There is a widely acknowledged need for a single composite index that provides a comprehensive picture of the societal impact of disasters. A composite index combines and logically organizes important information policy-makers need to allocate resources for the recovery from natural disasters; it can also inform hazard mitigation strategies. This paper develops a Disaster Impact Index (DII) to gauge the societal impact of disasters on the basis o…
Political Reconciliation, the Rule of Law, and Genocide
Political reconciliation involves the repairing of damaged political relationships. This paper considers the possibility and moral justifiability of pursuing political reconciliation in the aftermath of systematic and egregious wrongdoing, in particular genocide. The first two sections discuss what political reconciliation specifically requires. I argue that it neither entails nor necessitates forgiveness. Rather, I claim, political reconciliatio…
Conference Papers: 3. Examples of the Military's Role in Major Humanitarian Crises Closing the 20th Century with Some Important Lessons: Bosnia and the Need for Enforcement
Conference Papers: 3. Examples of the Military's Role in Major Humanitarian Crises Closing the 20th Century with Some Important Lessons: Bosnia and the Need for Enforcement Get access Colum Murphy Colum Murphy Former Deputy Head of UN Political Affairs Inside Bosnia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2004, Pages 121–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/23.4.1…
Gauging the societal impacts of natural disasters using a capability approach
There is a widely acknowledged need for a single composite index that provides a comprehensive picture of the societal impact of disasters. A composite index combines and logically organizes important information policy-makers need to allocate resources for the recovery from natural disasters; it can also inform hazard mitigation strategies. This paper develops a Disaster Impact Index (DII) to gauge the societal impact of disasters on the basis o…
Empirical Predictive Modeling Approach to Quantifying Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
Conventionally, natural hazard scholars quantify social vulnerability based on social indicators to manifest the extent to which locational communities are susceptible to adverse impacts of natural hazard events and are prone to limited or delayed recoveries. They usually overlook the different geographical distributions of social vulnerability at different hazard intensities and in distinct response and recovery phases, however. In addition, con…
Assessing capability instead of achieved functionings in risk analysis
A capability approach has been proposed to risk analysis, where risk is conceptualized as the probability that capabilities are reduced. Capabilities refer to the genuine opportunities of individuals to achieve valuable doings and beings, such as being adequately nourished. Such doings and beings are called functionings. A current debate in risk analysis and other fields where a capability approach has been developed concerns whether capabilities…
Reflexive Engagement with Transitional Justice
Abolition, scholar-activism, and deterrence: Reflections on Tommie Shelby’s The Idea of Abolition
In The Idea of Prison Abolition , philosopher Tommie Shelby critically analyzes the case for prison abolition advanced by scholar-activists such as Angela Davis. Abolition is understood as the dismantling and permanent abandonment of incarceration as a method of responding to a social problem like crime. In Shelby's view, abolitionists do not successfully show that prisons must be abolished. Prisons for him retain a necessary and morally defensib…
Decolonizing Transitional Justice: Soft, Radical or Beyond Reform
Practices of knowing and being are not isolable; they are mutually implicated.We don't obtain knowledge by standing outside the world; we know because we are part of the world.We are part of the world in its differential becoming.The separation of epistemology from ontology is a reverberation of a metaphysics that assumes an inherent difference between human and nonhuman, subject and object, mind and body, matter and discourse
Sovereignty, territory, and the legitimacy of the international order
In The Shifting Border, Ayelet Shachar (2020) argues that the exercise of sovereign power through border regimes no longer tracks territorial boundaries. In my commentary, I first argue that Shachar’s analysis implicitly calls into question the legitimacy of the international order. I then raise the worry that the logic which severs the link between the exercise of sovereignty and territory is the same logic that can be used to justify injustice …
Political reconciliation, the rule of law, and truces
Nir Eisikovits argues in A Theory of Truces that most contemporary conflicts wind down in a much more piecemeal fashion than our theorizing about the morality of ending wars suggests. Pauses in violence are achieved by securing agreement on narrow questions. Moreover, rather than hoping to do away with violence, theorizing would do best, he writes, to take as its starting point the fact of warfare as part of the human condition. Eisikovits aims t…
Political Reconciliation, the Rule of Law, and Genocide
Political reconciliation involves the repairing of damaged political relationships. This paper considers the possibility and moral justifiability of pursuing political reconciliation in the aftermath of systematic and egregious wrongdoing, in particular genocide. The first two sections discuss what political reconciliation specifically requires. I argue that it neither entails nor necessitates forgiveness. Rather, I claim, political reconciliatio…
Conference Papers: 3. Examples of the Military's Role in Major Humanitarian Crises Closing the 20th Century with Some Important Lessons: Bosnia and the Need for Enforcement
Conference Papers: 3. Examples of the Military's Role in Major Humanitarian Crises Closing the 20th Century with Some Important Lessons: Bosnia and the Need for Enforcement Get access Colum Murphy Colum Murphy Former Deputy Head of UN Political Affairs Inside Bosnia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2004, Pages 121–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/23.4.1…
Political Reconciliation, the Rule of Law, and Genocide
Political reconciliation involves the repairing of damaged political relationships. This paper considers the possibility and moral justifiability of pursuing political reconciliation in the aftermath of systematic and egregious wrongdoing, in particular genocide. The first two sections discuss what political reconciliation specifically requires. I argue that it neither entails nor necessitates forgiveness. Rather, I claim, political reconciliatio…
Perceptions of HIV/Aids leaders about faith-based organisations’ influence on HIV/Aids stigma in South Africa
The extent of the HIV pandemic-particularly in the hardest-hit countries, including South Africa-has prompted a call for greater engagement of all groups, including faith-based organisations (FBOs). Although FBOs are known to play a substantial role in providing care and support to those affected by HIV and AIDS, empirical evidence in regard to their actions in the broader context of stigma is limited. A qualitative, key-informant survey was cond…
Assessing capability instead of achieved functionings in risk analysis
A capability approach has been proposed to risk analysis, where risk is conceptualized as the probability that capabilities are reduced. Capabilities refer to the genuine opportunities of individuals to achieve valuable doings and beings, such as being adequately nourished. Such doings and beings are called functionings. A current debate in risk analysis and other fields where a capability approach has been developed concerns whether capabilities…
Evaluating the Source of the Risks Associated with Natural Events
Gauging the societal impacts of natural disasters using a capability approach
There is a widely acknowledged need for a single composite index that provides a comprehensive picture of the societal impact of disasters. A composite index combines and logically organizes important information policy-makers need to allocate resources for the recovery from natural disasters; it can also inform hazard mitigation strategies. This paper develops a Disaster Impact Index (DII) to gauge the societal impact of disasters on the basis o…
Political Reconciliation, Jus Post Bellum and Asymmetric Conflict
This article concentrates on asymmetrical civil war, one common type of contemporary conflict. My aim is to articulate some of the normative jus post bellum guidelines that should be followed in ending this kind of asymmetrical conflict, and the ideal of just peace that should inform the development of such guidelines. I argue that questions surrounding the just ending and aftermath of asymmetrical conflict should be answered relationally, that i…
Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Integrated Solutions
The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice
Many countries have attempted to transition to democracy following conflict or repression, but the basic meaning of transitional justice remains hotly contested. In this book, Colleen Murphy analyses transitional justice - showing how it is distinguished from retributive, corrective, and distributive justice - and outlines the ethical standards which societies attempting to democratize should follow. She argues that transitional justice involves …
Political reconciliation, the rule of law, and truces
Nir Eisikovits argues in A Theory of Truces that most contemporary conflicts wind down in a much more piecemeal fashion than our theorizing about the morality of ending wars suggests. Pauses in violence are achieved by securing agreement on narrow questions. Moreover, rather than hoping to do away with violence, theorizing would do best, he writes, to take as its starting point the fact of warfare as part of the human condition. Eisikovits aims t…
On theorizing transitional justice: Responses to Walker, Hull, Metz and Hellsten
Transitional justice encompasses a global body of scholarship and practice that concentrates on responses to large-scale wrongdoing in the context of an attempted shift from conflict and/or repression. In my book, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (2017) I argue that transitional justice is a distinctive type of justice. Transitional justice requires the just pursuit of societal transformation. I define transformation relationall…
Worldwide Predictions of Earthquake Casualty Rates with Seismic Intensity Measure and Socioeconomic Data: A Fragility-Based Formulation
This paper presents a fragility-based Bayesian formulation to predict earthquake casualty rates for countries worldwide. The earthquake casualty rate of a community is defined as the probability that a person in the community is killed or injured given an intensity measure of the earthquake at the site of the community. Casualty data of 902 earthquakes worldwide from 2013 to 2017, information on population distributions, and the national socioeco…
Introduction to the Symposium on Sabine Roeser’s Risk, Technology, and Moral Emotions
Religion & Transitional Justice
Transitional justice refers to the process of dealing with human rights abuses committed during the course of ongoing conflict or repression, where such processes are established as a society aims to move toward a better state, and where a constitutive element of that better state includes democracy. A philosophical theory of transitional justice articulates what the moral criteria or standards are that processes of transitional justice must sati…
Empirical Predictive Modeling Approach to Quantifying Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
Conventionally, natural hazard scholars quantify social vulnerability based on social indicators to manifest the extent to which locational communities are susceptible to adverse impacts of natural hazard events and are prone to limited or delayed recoveries. They usually overlook the different geographical distributions of social vulnerability at different hazard intensities and in distinct response and recovery phases, however. In addition, con…
Which consequences matter in risk analysis and disaster assessment
Interactive Justice in Transitional Justice: A Dynamic Framework
This article develops a new dynamic framework for the normative evaluation of processes of transitional justice capable of integrating instrumental and noninstrumental justice‐based assessments grounded on concerns of “interactive justice.” Interactive justice is realized in or through institutional processes that treat people in ways appropriate to their status as institutional role occupants. Analyzing interactive justice in transitional justic…
Sovereignty, territory, and the legitimacy of the international order
In The Shifting Border, Ayelet Shachar (2020) argues that the exercise of sovereign power through border regimes no longer tracks territorial boundaries. In my commentary, I first argue that Shachar’s analysis implicitly calls into question the legitimacy of the international order. I then raise the worry that the logic which severs the link between the exercise of sovereignty and territory is the same logic that can be used to justify injustice …
How to End a War: Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair
How and when should we end a war? What place should the pathways to a war's end have in war planning and decision-making? This volume treats the topic of ending war as part and parcel of how wars begin and how they are fought – a unique, complex problem, worthy of its own conversation. New essays by leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of philosophical ethics, international relations, and military law reflect on the problem and show t…
Transitional justice for historical injustice
This chapter explores possibilities for transitional justice for historical injustice, or temporally distant violence. It can also refer to temporally extended abuse. We focus our discussion on two prominent examples of political violence in the past that reverberates into the present: the slavery in the Americas and European colonialism. Descendants of enslaved Africans in the Americas experience structural, state and interpersonal violence and …
Decolonizing Transitional Justice: Soft, Radical or Beyond Reform
Practices of knowing and being are not isolable; they are mutually implicated.We don't obtain knowledge by standing outside the world; we know because we are part of the world.We are part of the world in its differential becoming.The separation of epistemology from ontology is a reverberation of a metaphysics that assumes an inherent difference between human and nonhuman, subject and object, mind and body, matter and discourse
Reflexive Engagement with Transitional Justice
Abolition, scholar-activism, and deterrence: Reflections on Tommie Shelby’s The Idea of Abolition
In The Idea of Prison Abolition , philosopher Tommie Shelby critically analyzes the case for prison abolition advanced by scholar-activists such as Angela Davis. Abolition is understood as the dismantling and permanent abandonment of incarceration as a method of responding to a social problem like crime. In Shelby's view, abolitionists do not successfully show that prisons must be abolished. Prisons for him retain a necessary and morally defensib…
Transitional Justice in an Age of Resurgent Authoritarianism
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