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  • 11 - Conclusions

  • from Part II - Assessing Transitional Justice for Historical Abuses of Church and State
  • James Gallen, Dublin City University
  • Book:
    Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State
    Published online:
    23 March 2023
    Print publication:
    30 March 2023, pp 275-290
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    Chapter 11 concludes the book by arguing that absent consideration of structural injustice, power, and emotions, transitional justice may be used to legitimate structures of power and emotional narratives that continue to subordinate and marginalise historically abused groups and individuals. It concludes that a different conception of progress and transition is required to navigate the meaning of historical abuses for the legitimacy of Western liberal democracies and Christian churches. On this account, the book concludes, transition and transformation are matters of the character of progress itself, progress that lives in the tension between wrongs that ‘can never be repaired and must never be forgotten’.