Transitional Justice: History-Telling, Collective Memory and the Victim-Witness

Abstract: This article examines the complex, inherently political, and often contradictory processes of truth-finding, history-telling, and formation of collective memory through transitional justice. It explores tensions between history-telling and the normative goals of truth commissions and international criminal courts, taking into account the increasing importance attributed to victims as witnesses of history. The legal space these instruments of transitional justice offer is determined by both their historical and political roots, and specific goals and procedures. Because the legal space that truth commissions offer for history-telling is more flexible and their report open to public debate, they may open up alternative public spaces and enable civil society to contest the master narrative. The legal truth laid down in the rulings of an international criminal court is by definition closed. The verdict of a court is definite and authoritative; closure, not continued debate about what i.... https://www.ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/2951

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Transitional Justice: History-Telling, Collective Memory and the Victim-Witness ; volume:7 ; number:1 ; day:04 ; month:03 ; year:2013
International journal of conflict and violence ; 7, Heft 1 (04.03.2013)

Urheber
Chrisje Brants
Katrien Klep

DOI
10.4119/ijcv-2951
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020062210522322172493
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  • Chrisje Brants
  • Katrien Klep

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