Simon Robin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3877253 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Simon Robin |
| NOMBRES | Simon |
| APELLIDO | Robin |
| FIRMA | ROBIN S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6445-2159 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 240 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Desaparecidos en la Migración
Las personas que mueren o desaparecen durante la migración dejan atrás familias con necesidades similares a las de aquellas cuyos seres queridos desaparecen como resultado de conflictos y violencia política. De hecho, gran parte de lo que se ha aprendido en términos de apoyo psicosocial y trabajo forense en contextos de transición posconflicto puede resultar también útil en contextos migratorios. Sin embargo, tanto las limitaciones políticas como…
Missing persons and peacebuilding
This article investigates the critical and often overlooked role of families of missing persons in peacebuilding when the hostilities of armed conflict cease. The unresolved fate of missing persons creates ambiguous loss, a state of chronic psychological and social uncertainty that structurally impedes communal recovery and undermines the fragile foundations of peace. While the issue of missing persons is typically framed as a humanitarian and le…
Introduction
As a violation of rights, disappearance is unique in being defined in terms of what is not known rather than what is, and this both shapes why and how it must be approached differently from other violations and gives it a particular analytical power in understanding rights practice more broadly. Human rights practice in response to missing persons has long emphasized victims of enforced disappearance, where a legal framework that emerged from the…
Formal but Local Transitional Justice
This article explores how the families of the disappeared in Nepal, in the absence of any substantive state-led transitional justice process, have mobilized to created victim groups to drive local political and social engagements with violations of the decade long internal conflict. Victims’ groups have informally memorialized their missing relatives and ultimately successfully advocated with local government to advance local memorialization thro…
The Politics of Ambiguous Loss
This article seeks to understand how the concept of ambiguous loss can help explain why and how the issue of missing persons becomes a tool of politics, in terms of being instrumentalized to advance particular political agendas. Ambiguous loss is constructed relationally within the social systems that family members of the missing occupy and, as a result, social and political contexts play a crucial role in both defining ambiguity and in mediatin…
Addressing missing persons arising from armed conflict as a driver of peace
International humanitarian law (IHL) provides the normative foundation for efforts to address the issue of missing persons during and after armed conflict. Whilst IHL does not engage with how parties to an armed conflict may go about restoring peace, there has been speculation that resolving the missing issue, by bringing answers to families about the fate and whereabouts of their missing relatives, can potentially play a role in building peace. …
Towards a spectral forensics
The ‘forensic turn’ in transitional justice has seen technologies of identification, notably DNA, become an essential part of recommended responses to missing and disappeared persons in the afermath of violent conflict. There is now a widespread assumption that these technologies will deliver an incontrovertible ‘forensic truth’ that will instantiate families’ ‘right to know’ the fate of their loved ones and benefit society as a whole. However, i…
Transitional Justice in Tunisia
Transitional justice from the margins
The Tunisian revolution of 2011 moved from socio-economic to political concerns, and from the margins and periphery of the South and West of the country to the centre, Tunis, driven by the slogan of “jobs, dignity and freedom”. The goal of this article is to understand the potential of using the spatially informed concept of marginalisation to reimagine transitional justice, using the “victim zone” as a case study. The Truth and Dignity Commissio…
Transitional Justice and Theories of Change
This article has two goals. First, to make explicit the theories of change currently operative within transitional justice and, second, to critically engage with both these theories, and dominant theories in international development. As such, it seeks to replace a focus on results, attribution, and linearity with a privileging of process, contribution and complexity. Developing theories of change for transitional justice is challenging, as it is…
Missing in Migration
Persons who die or go missing in migration leave behind families with similar needs to the families of those missing in conflict and political violence. Indeed, much of what has been learned in terms of psychosocial support and forensic work in transitional contexts may be useful in such situations. However, both the political and logistical constraints of identifying the bodies of dead migrants, for example those found in the Mediterranean Sea, …
The Affective Border
While living migrants are the object of enormous attention, counted and screened on arrival and throughout their presence in European states, those who die crossing the Mediterranean remain uncounted and largely unidentified, as a result of a failure of European states to collect data from both bodies and from families looking for missing loved ones. Living migrants are seen as objects of interest to and control of biopolitical regimes, yet, once…
Rethinking civil society and transitional justice
Transitional justice has often reduced conceptions of civil society to human rights NGOs, and lacks a rigorous conceptualisation of the role that civil society plays in transitional justice processes. It largely ignores as political actors the social movements that have driven democratisation in various parts of the world and can be credited as integral to the creation of the discourse of transitional justice. While transitional justice in theory…
Discursive Approaches to Ambiguous Loss
Ambiguous loss is experienced and constructed relationally. As a result, the social and political context plays a role alongside psychological factors as elements that both mediate the impact of ambiguous loss and can aid or retard effective coping. By considering the case of persons disappeared in political violence, an approach to addressing ambiguous loss is theorized that uses community‐based therapeutic approaches. Beginning from poststructu…
Death as the border
The paper explores how the management of migrant bodies by national and EU authorities reflects particular understandings of contemporary borders and how the failure to address such bodies has implications far from the frontier. The study of the management both of the dead and of the data that can serve to identify missing migrants, can benefit our understanding of the contemporary border, and has to date received only limited scholarly attention…
Mapping a Future for Transitional Justice by Learning from Its Past
Contested spaces of transitional justice
This article critically examines the concept of legal empowerment as it has been used with reference to transitional justice, mapping its rise and impact based on a selection of case studies. In recent decades, international transitional justice advocacy has evolved dramatically, with practice increasingly emphasising the centrality of criminal accountability for violence, precisely as more holistic approaches have emerged that have broadened the…
Participatory Methodologies with Victims
Transitional justice seeks to address legacies of violence around political transition from authoritarianism and armed conflict. It does so in ways driven by a global discourse that is prescriptive and often remote from the contexts in which it is articulated and the populations it claims to serve. Transitional justice is also embedded in teleological liberal approaches to transition, with a perceived endpoint of liberal democracy. Critical appro…
From Transitional to Transformative Justice
Transitional justice has become a globally dominant lens through which to approach states addressing legacies of a violent past. An industry of praxis has emerged, supported by dedicated nongovernmental organizations and large-scale funding from western donors. Yet, the performance and impact of transitional justice mechanisms have been at best ambiguous and at times disappointing. This article proposes a new agenda for practice, one that offers …
Challenging the Therapeutic Ethic
Journal Article Challenging the Therapeutic Ethic: A Victim-Centred Evaluation of Transitional Justice Process in Timor-Leste Get access Simon Robins Simon Robins * * Associate, Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit, University of York, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 83–105, h…
An Empirical Approach to Post-conflict Legitimacy
An empirical study has been made of victims of conflict in Timor-Leste and Nepal seeking a qualitative understanding of local post-conflict priorities. It allows an appreciation to emerge of how the conflict-affected conceive of legitimacy and quality of governance, with victims emphasizing basic needs, an addressing of issues of marginalization and the incorporation of indigenous understandings of the meaning of peace. The data in this study mot…
Towards Victim-Centred Transitional Justice
Despite many transitional justice processes claiming to be ‘victim-centred,’ in practice they are rarely driven by the needs of those most affected by conflict. Indeed, in many contexts the views of victims are not sought by those driving the transition. In this article, the needs of a representative sample of 160 families of people disappeared during Nepal’s decade-long Maoist insurgency are studied in an effort to understand what such families …
Whose Voices? Understanding Victims' Needs in Transition
Understanding what affected populations seek from transitional justice is a crucial step in creating a transitional process that is responsive to the needs of victims and others. A consensus exists that the local context and communities must be considered by transitional justice processes (United Nations Secretary General, 2004) to achieve ‘evidence-based transitional justice’ (Pham and Vinck, 2007), and this has led to the use of empirical metho…
From Transitional to Transformative Justice
Transitional justice has become a globally dominant lens through which to approach states addressing legacies of a violent past. An industry of praxis has emerged, supported by dedicated nongovernmental organizations and large-scale funding from western donors. Yet, the performance and impact of transitional justice mechanisms have been at best ambiguous and at times disappointing. This article proposes a new agenda for practice, one that offers …
Death as the border
The paper explores how the management of migrant bodies by national and EU authorities reflects particular understandings of contemporary borders and how the failure to address such bodies has implications far from the frontier. The study of the management both of the dead and of the data that can serve to identify missing migrants, can benefit our understanding of the contemporary border, and has to date received only limited scholarly attention…
Rethinking civil society and transitional justice
Transitional justice has often reduced conceptions of civil society to human rights NGOs, and lacks a rigorous conceptualisation of the role that civil society plays in transitional justice processes. It largely ignores as political actors the social movements that have driven democratisation in various parts of the world and can be credited as integral to the creation of the discourse of transitional justice. While transitional justice in theory…
Towards Victim-Centred Transitional Justice
Despite many transitional justice processes claiming to be ‘victim-centred,’ in practice they are rarely driven by the needs of those most affected by conflict. Indeed, in many contexts the views of victims are not sought by those driving the transition. In this article, the needs of a representative sample of 160 families of people disappeared during Nepal’s decade-long Maoist insurgency are studied in an effort to understand what such families …
Transitional Justice and Theories of Change
This article has two goals. First, to make explicit the theories of change currently operative within transitional justice and, second, to critically engage with both these theories, and dominant theories in international development. As such, it seeks to replace a focus on results, attribution, and linearity with a privileging of process, contribution and complexity. Developing theories of change for transitional justice is challenging, as it is…
Challenging the Therapeutic Ethic
Journal Article Challenging the Therapeutic Ethic: A Victim-Centred Evaluation of Transitional Justice Process in Timor-Leste Get access Simon Robins Simon Robins * * Associate, Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit, University of York, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 83–105, h…
Participatory Methodologies with Victims
Transitional justice seeks to address legacies of violence around political transition from authoritarianism and armed conflict. It does so in ways driven by a global discourse that is prescriptive and often remote from the contexts in which it is articulated and the populations it claims to serve. Transitional justice is also embedded in teleological liberal approaches to transition, with a perceived endpoint of liberal democracy. Critical appro…
The Affective Border
While living migrants are the object of enormous attention, counted and screened on arrival and throughout their presence in European states, those who die crossing the Mediterranean remain uncounted and largely unidentified, as a result of a failure of European states to collect data from both bodies and from families looking for missing loved ones. Living migrants are seen as objects of interest to and control of biopolitical regimes, yet, once…
Discursive Approaches to Ambiguous Loss
Ambiguous loss is experienced and constructed relationally. As a result, the social and political context plays a role alongside psychological factors as elements that both mediate the impact of ambiguous loss and can aid or retard effective coping. By considering the case of persons disappeared in political violence, an approach to addressing ambiguous loss is theorized that uses community‐based therapeutic approaches. Beginning from poststructu…
Contested spaces of transitional justice
This article critically examines the concept of legal empowerment as it has been used with reference to transitional justice, mapping its rise and impact based on a selection of case studies. In recent decades, international transitional justice advocacy has evolved dramatically, with practice increasingly emphasising the centrality of criminal accountability for violence, precisely as more holistic approaches have emerged that have broadened the…
An Empirical Approach to Post-conflict Legitimacy
An empirical study has been made of victims of conflict in Timor-Leste and Nepal seeking a qualitative understanding of local post-conflict priorities. It allows an appreciation to emerge of how the conflict-affected conceive of legitimacy and quality of governance, with victims emphasizing basic needs, an addressing of issues of marginalization and the incorporation of indigenous understandings of the meaning of peace. The data in this study mot…
Addressing missing persons arising from armed conflict as a driver of peace
International humanitarian law (IHL) provides the normative foundation for efforts to address the issue of missing persons during and after armed conflict. Whilst IHL does not engage with how parties to an armed conflict may go about restoring peace, there has been speculation that resolving the missing issue, by bringing answers to families about the fate and whereabouts of their missing relatives, can potentially play a role in building peace. …
Mapping a Future for Transitional Justice by Learning from Its Past
Towards a spectral forensics
The ‘forensic turn’ in transitional justice has seen technologies of identification, notably DNA, become an essential part of recommended responses to missing and disappeared persons in the afermath of violent conflict. There is now a widespread assumption that these technologies will deliver an incontrovertible ‘forensic truth’ that will instantiate families’ ‘right to know’ the fate of their loved ones and benefit society as a whole. However, i…
Transitional justice from the margins
The Tunisian revolution of 2011 moved from socio-economic to political concerns, and from the margins and periphery of the South and West of the country to the centre, Tunis, driven by the slogan of “jobs, dignity and freedom”. The goal of this article is to understand the potential of using the spatially informed concept of marginalisation to reimagine transitional justice, using the “victim zone” as a case study. The Truth and Dignity Commissio…
Whose Voices? Understanding Victims' Needs in Transition
Understanding what affected populations seek from transitional justice is a crucial step in creating a transitional process that is responsive to the needs of victims and others. A consensus exists that the local context and communities must be considered by transitional justice processes (United Nations Secretary General, 2004) to achieve ‘evidence-based transitional justice’ (Pham and Vinck, 2007), and this has led to the use of empirical metho…
Towards Victim-Centred Transitional Justice
Despite many transitional justice processes claiming to be ‘victim-centred,’ in practice they are rarely driven by the needs of those most affected by conflict. Indeed, in many contexts the views of victims are not sought by those driving the transition. In this article, the needs of a representative sample of 160 families of people disappeared during Nepal’s decade-long Maoist insurgency are studied in an effort to understand what such families …
Challenging the Therapeutic Ethic
Journal Article Challenging the Therapeutic Ethic: A Victim-Centred Evaluation of Transitional Justice Process in Timor-Leste Get access Simon Robins Simon Robins * * Associate, Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit, University of York, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 83–105, h…
An Empirical Approach to Post-conflict Legitimacy
An empirical study has been made of victims of conflict in Timor-Leste and Nepal seeking a qualitative understanding of local post-conflict priorities. It allows an appreciation to emerge of how the conflict-affected conceive of legitimacy and quality of governance, with victims emphasizing basic needs, an addressing of issues of marginalization and the incorporation of indigenous understandings of the meaning of peace. The data in this study mot…
From Transitional to Transformative Justice
Transitional justice has become a globally dominant lens through which to approach states addressing legacies of a violent past. An industry of praxis has emerged, supported by dedicated nongovernmental organizations and large-scale funding from western donors. Yet, the performance and impact of transitional justice mechanisms have been at best ambiguous and at times disappointing. This article proposes a new agenda for practice, one that offers …
Mapping a Future for Transitional Justice by Learning from Its Past
Contested spaces of transitional justice
This article critically examines the concept of legal empowerment as it has been used with reference to transitional justice, mapping its rise and impact based on a selection of case studies. In recent decades, international transitional justice advocacy has evolved dramatically, with practice increasingly emphasising the centrality of criminal accountability for violence, precisely as more holistic approaches have emerged that have broadened the…
Participatory Methodologies with Victims
Transitional justice seeks to address legacies of violence around political transition from authoritarianism and armed conflict. It does so in ways driven by a global discourse that is prescriptive and often remote from the contexts in which it is articulated and the populations it claims to serve. Transitional justice is also embedded in teleological liberal approaches to transition, with a perceived endpoint of liberal democracy. Critical appro…
Discursive Approaches to Ambiguous Loss
Ambiguous loss is experienced and constructed relationally. As a result, the social and political context plays a role alongside psychological factors as elements that both mediate the impact of ambiguous loss and can aid or retard effective coping. By considering the case of persons disappeared in political violence, an approach to addressing ambiguous loss is theorized that uses community‐based therapeutic approaches. Beginning from poststructu…
Death as the border
The paper explores how the management of migrant bodies by national and EU authorities reflects particular understandings of contemporary borders and how the failure to address such bodies has implications far from the frontier. The study of the management both of the dead and of the data that can serve to identify missing migrants, can benefit our understanding of the contemporary border, and has to date received only limited scholarly attention…
Rethinking civil society and transitional justice
Transitional justice has often reduced conceptions of civil society to human rights NGOs, and lacks a rigorous conceptualisation of the role that civil society plays in transitional justice processes. It largely ignores as political actors the social movements that have driven democratisation in various parts of the world and can be credited as integral to the creation of the discourse of transitional justice. While transitional justice in theory…
Missing in Migration
Persons who die or go missing in migration leave behind families with similar needs to the families of those missing in conflict and political violence. Indeed, much of what has been learned in terms of psychosocial support and forensic work in transitional contexts may be useful in such situations. However, both the political and logistical constraints of identifying the bodies of dead migrants, for example those found in the Mediterranean Sea, …
The Affective Border
While living migrants are the object of enormous attention, counted and screened on arrival and throughout their presence in European states, those who die crossing the Mediterranean remain uncounted and largely unidentified, as a result of a failure of European states to collect data from both bodies and from families looking for missing loved ones. Living migrants are seen as objects of interest to and control of biopolitical regimes, yet, once…
Transitional Justice and Theories of Change
This article has two goals. First, to make explicit the theories of change currently operative within transitional justice and, second, to critically engage with both these theories, and dominant theories in international development. As such, it seeks to replace a focus on results, attribution, and linearity with a privileging of process, contribution and complexity. Developing theories of change for transitional justice is challenging, as it is…
Transitional Justice in Tunisia
Transitional justice from the margins
The Tunisian revolution of 2011 moved from socio-economic to political concerns, and from the margins and periphery of the South and West of the country to the centre, Tunis, driven by the slogan of “jobs, dignity and freedom”. The goal of this article is to understand the potential of using the spatially informed concept of marginalisation to reimagine transitional justice, using the “victim zone” as a case study. The Truth and Dignity Commissio…
Formal but Local Transitional Justice
This article explores how the families of the disappeared in Nepal, in the absence of any substantive state-led transitional justice process, have mobilized to created victim groups to drive local political and social engagements with violations of the decade long internal conflict. Victims’ groups have informally memorialized their missing relatives and ultimately successfully advocated with local government to advance local memorialization thro…
The Politics of Ambiguous Loss
This article seeks to understand how the concept of ambiguous loss can help explain why and how the issue of missing persons becomes a tool of politics, in terms of being instrumentalized to advance particular political agendas. Ambiguous loss is constructed relationally within the social systems that family members of the missing occupy and, as a result, social and political contexts play a crucial role in both defining ambiguity and in mediatin…
Addressing missing persons arising from armed conflict as a driver of peace
International humanitarian law (IHL) provides the normative foundation for efforts to address the issue of missing persons during and after armed conflict. Whilst IHL does not engage with how parties to an armed conflict may go about restoring peace, there has been speculation that resolving the missing issue, by bringing answers to families about the fate and whereabouts of their missing relatives, can potentially play a role in building peace. …
Towards a spectral forensics
The ‘forensic turn’ in transitional justice has seen technologies of identification, notably DNA, become an essential part of recommended responses to missing and disappeared persons in the afermath of violent conflict. There is now a widespread assumption that these technologies will deliver an incontrovertible ‘forensic truth’ that will instantiate families’ ‘right to know’ the fate of their loved ones and benefit society as a whole. However, i…
Introduction
As a violation of rights, disappearance is unique in being defined in terms of what is not known rather than what is, and this both shapes why and how it must be approached differently from other violations and gives it a particular analytical power in understanding rights practice more broadly. Human rights practice in response to missing persons has long emphasized victims of enforced disappearance, where a legal framework that emerged from the…
Desaparecidos en la Migración
Las personas que mueren o desaparecen durante la migración dejan atrás familias con necesidades similares a las de aquellas cuyos seres queridos desaparecen como resultado de conflictos y violencia política. De hecho, gran parte de lo que se ha aprendido en términos de apoyo psicosocial y trabajo forense en contextos de transición posconflicto puede resultar también útil en contextos migratorios. Sin embargo, tanto las limitaciones políticas como…
Missing persons and peacebuilding
This article investigates the critical and often overlooked role of families of missing persons in peacebuilding when the hostilities of armed conflict cease. The unresolved fate of missing persons creates ambiguous loss, a state of chronic psychological and social uncertainty that structurally impedes communal recovery and undermines the fragile foundations of peace. While the issue of missing persons is typically framed as a humanitarian and le…
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