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  • 8 - Reparations

  • 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 196-222
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    Chapter 8 argues that despite significant munificence to the compensation and redress schemes for historical abuses, the approach taken across a range of states misses the opportunity to transform the relationship between victim-survivors of historical abuse and the states and churches responsible for their harm. If the monetary and material dimensions of reparations are necessarily inadequate to the harms experienced, then the symbolic and communicative dimensions form a critical part of reparations as a response to historical-structural injustice. Rather than act as a form of settlement and closure of claims regarding wrongs, reparations can also serve as an example, to communicate ongoing commitments from states and churches to other aspects of transitional justice, that reflect a desire for a renewed relationship between victim-survivors.