Lessons from transitional justice? Toward a new framing of a victim-centered approach in the case of historical institutional abuse

B Hamber, P Lundy - Victims & Offenders, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… Developing this growing focus on transitional justice is the main orientation of this article, …
might also offer enhanced victim participation (see, for example, work on restorative justice, eg, …

'Victims of'human rights abuses in transitional justice: hierarchies, perpetrators and the struggle for peace

K Hearty - The international journal of human rights, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… ’ rights and interests, both also illustrate the potential for the politicisation of victimhood by
pitting victims against their victimiser and framing them as binary opposites.Footnote 21 While …

Victims and transitional justice: Voice, agency and blame

K McEvoy, K McConnachie - Social & Legal Studies, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
… and acted upon in transitional contexts. It explores the ways in which victims’ voice and
agency are realised, impeded or in some cases co-opted in transitional justice. It also examines …

Failing Victims: The Limits of Transitional Justice in Addressing the Needs of Victims of Violations

S Robins - Hum. Rts. & Int'l Legal Discourse, 2017 - HeinOnline
… 26 Imposing the frame of trauma on victims implies a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress
disorder and a consequent need for 'therapy', in contrast to potentially more relevant and local …

Framing, truth-telling, and the limits of local transitional justice

A Kochanski - Review of International Studies, 2021 - cambridge.org
… – TJ proceedings by framing conflict-related events in a way … can claim the status of a victim
or be designated a perpetrator, … deliver, justice through subtle and indirect framing methods, …

Victims, nonvictims and their opinions on transitional justice: Findings from the Colombian case

E Nussio, A Rettberg, JE Ugarriza - … of Transitional Justice, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Victims of … transitional justice mechanisms between victims and nonvictims, using a
representative sample of the Colombian population (n = 1,843, of whom 315 are conflict victims). We …

Victimology in transitional justice: Victimhood, innocence and hierarchy

K McEvoy, K McConnachie - European Journal of …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
… of victim experiences in transitional justice resonates strongly with some key criminological
writings regarding the treatment of victims … policy, victims’ needs were increasingly framed as …

Naming and framing victims: Identity,'usable'victimhood, and the spectral turn in transitional justice

M Hearty, K Hearty - International Review of Victimology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
… , memory studies, and transitional justice, this article critically … activism centres on ‘usable’
victims whose victimhood can be … Acknowledging the recent ‘spectral turn’ in transitional justice

Transitional justice and the'plight'of victimhood

LE Fletcher, HM Weinstein - … handbook on transitional justice, 2017 - elgaronline.com
… new light on the challenges to and concerns raised by a victim-centered transitional justice.
… in the ways that human rights frame victims and political transformation of societies in the …

Victims, violence, and voice: Transitional justice, oral history, and dealing with the past

A Bryson - Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev., 2016 - HeinOnline
… untested-corrective is that transitional justice theory and practice must become … to transitional
justice, and concentrate in particular on interview-based initiatives that purport to be "victim-…