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6 - Activating Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2023

Laura S. Martin
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University of Nottingham
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This chapter concludes by revisiting the literature on local transitional justice to demonstrate the importance of looking at social structures and individual agency to better understand these processes and programs. I will elaborate on how recognized mechanisms in Sierra Leone were, in fact, both physically and psychologically distanced from people’s everyday priorities, further begging the question for whom these institutions implemented and why? Therefore, engaging with transitional justice mechanisms is both conceptually and practically privileged. This goes beyond simply critiquing transitional justice mechanisms to interrogate its conceptual and institutional foundations. The alternative ways people engaged with and outside of these programs demonstrate how people enacted transitions and justice on their own, often individual terms, both in relation to the conflict and other, more contemporary issues. Therefore, justice is not something to be done to or for people, as is often how the discourses have been framed with individuals as passive participants for whom justice is being served; rather, justice is something you can mobilize and do for yourself to address individual and communal needs.

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Navigating Local Transitional Justice
Agency at Work in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
, pp. 158 - 168
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Activating Justice
  • Laura S. Martin, University of Nottingham
  • Book: Navigating Local Transitional Justice
  • Online publication: 13 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009281058.006
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  • Activating Justice
  • Laura S. Martin, University of Nottingham
  • Book: Navigating Local Transitional Justice
  • Online publication: 13 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009281058.006
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  • Activating Justice
  • Laura S. Martin, University of Nottingham
  • Book: Navigating Local Transitional Justice
  • Online publication: 13 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009281058.006
Available formats
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