Towards a minimal conception of Transitional Justice

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ID12915985
AuthorsValentina Gentile (0000-0002-4080-3444, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, corresponding author), Megan Foster (0009-0006-8084-4511, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli)
Year2021
Volume14
Issue3
Pages503-525
Publication date2021-12-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1752-9719 • E-ISSN: 1752-9727
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1752971921000269
OpenAlexW4200366803
LanguageEN
References cited53

Transitional Justice (TJ) focuses on the processes of dealing with the legacy of large-scale past abuses (in the aftermath of traumatic experiences such as war or authoritarianism) with the aim of fostering domestic justice and creating the basis for a sustainable peace. TJ however also entails the problem of how a torn society may be able to become a self-determining member of a just international order. This paper presents a minimal conception of TJ, which departs from Rawls' conception of normative stability of the international order, which suggests disentangling the two goals of fostering democracy within torn societies and TJ itself. The scope of TJ is therefore limited to enabling these societies to create minimal internal conditions for joining a just international order on equal footing. This paper makes an original contribution to two different debates, namely normative research on TJ, and post-Rawlsian literature in general. First, it provides a new direction for normative theorizing about TJ which takes both its domestic and international dimensions seriously into consideration. Second, it extends Rawls' political liberal outlook to an area where it is not usually understood to apply

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · International relations · Law and economics · Normative · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Transitional justice · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Philosophy

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