Transitional Justice and Development: Making Connections by Pablo de Greiff, Roger Duthie
By Pablo de Greiff, Roger Duthie
As constructing societies emerge from legacies of clash and authoritarianism, they're often beset by means of poverty, inequality, susceptible associations, damaged infrastructure, negative governance, lack of confidence, and coffee degrees of social capital. those international locations additionally are likely to propagate great human rights violations, which displace sufferers who're marginalized, handicapped, widowed, and orphaned—in different phrases, individuals with powerful claims to justice. those that paintings with others to handle improvement and justice usually fail to provide a coherent reaction to those matters. The essays during this quantity confront the intricacies—and interconnectedness—of transitional governance matters head on, mapping the connection among fields that, academically and in perform, have grown principally in isolation of each other. the results of a learn undertaking carried out via the foreign heart for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), this booklet explains how justice and restoration could be aligned not just in concept but in addition in perform, between either humans and governments as they reform.
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In the remaining sections, I build on this account to explain why the sort of violations that are the object of concern for transitional justice matter also from a development perspective, borrowing from the development literature to make the case. In section iii, I argue that the notion of social capital helps to demonstrate the relevance of past massive rights violations to development work. In section iv, I sketch the contours of an expanded conception of development using the notion of human development as an example, and then try to show how massive norm breakdowns can be thought to hinder development thus understood.
It is important to think about the relationship between transitional justice and development in both directions. Taking the last formulation of the argument I offer, one way of putting the point is the following: One reason why it makes sense for development agents, stereotypically oriented to the future, to concern themselves with efforts to deal with the legacies of massive human rights abuses is that doing so is necessary for full citizenship (“full” both in the sense of “robust” and in the sense of “for all”).
This capacity, according to Appadurai, is not evenly distributed in any society: the better off you are (in terms of power, dignity, and material resources), the more likely you are to be conscious of the links between the more 44 JUSTICE AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION and less immediate objects of aspiration. ”49 This account of diminished agency, then, can be put in terms that track the norm-based account of the effects of atrocities offered in section II, above. The mechanism is arguably the same in both cases.