Transitional justice for the “war on terror?”

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ID12720177
AuthorsFrédéric Mégret (0000-0002-1220-4903, McGill University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume22
Issue5
Pages643-659
Publication date2023-08-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Human Rights (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1475-4835 • E-ISSN: 1475-4843
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14754835.2023.2239273
OpenAlexW4385949551
LanguageEN
References cited46

More than 20 years after the 9/11 attacks and the ensuing “war on terror,” there is still very little comprehension of what its transitional justice implications might be. This article interrogates the transitional justice silence over the legacies of the war on terror as a way of problematizing both the war on terror and dominant liberal transitional justice paradigms. It charts how both paradigms have often failed to intersect, how some existing initiatives might nonetheless be understood as arising at their intersection, and the sort of questions that would need to be answered to frame a broad and ambitious transitional justice agenda to deal with the legacies of both terrorism and the response to it. AcknowledgmentsI would like to thank the organizers of two events where earlier versions of this paper were discussed, notably Natalie Davidson, Eliav Lieblich, and Aeyal Gross for the Tel Aviv University International Law Workshop and Thomas Skouteris for the Law Department Lecture Series, American University of Cairo. Special thanks to Noha Aboueldahab, Tamar Luster, Catherine Lu, and Olivier de Frouville for prodding and incisive comments and to Isabella Spano for her research assistance.Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrédéric MégretFrédéric Mégret is a professor of law and a William Dawson Scholar at McGill University, Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, and former Canada Research Chair on the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (2006–2015). Professor Mégret is currently coauthoring a book on diasporas and international law with Larissa van den Herik (Leiden University). He is the coeditor with Philip Alston of The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal (Oxford University Press, 2020), with Immi Tallgren of The Dawn of a Discipline: International Criminal Justice and Its Early Exponents (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and with Kevin Jon Heller, Sarah Nouwen, Jens David Ohlin, and Darryl Robinson of The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is also the author of Le Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda (Pedone, 2002)

Economic Justice · Human rights · International law · Legal pluralism · Legal profession · Legal realism · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Sociology · Terrorism · Transitional justice · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Philosophy

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