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An analysis of the contested terrain of transitional justice under the 'Victor's Peace' in Sri Lanka"
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Gowing, Richard |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | In the wake of Sri Lanka’s transition from war to ‘peace’, a variety of actors have sought to advance competing visions of how to deal with the country’s violent past. This paper seeks to critically analyse these efforts with particular attention to the underlying politics which animates them. Drawing on a body of critical scholarship that has recently emerged in the field, it is argued that the case of Sri Lanka provides a particularly stark illustration of the deeply contested nature of transitional justice, in ways which challenge its conceptualisation as a common enterprise or “global project”. Moreover, contrary to the notion that transitional justice is most aptly characterised as a ‘response’ to past abuses of power, the example at hand is used to demonstrate the way in which it is also used to consolidate and legitimize new forms of authority – thus inviting the modification of Foucault’s aphorism that transitional justice, like power, may represent ‘war by other means’. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.lse.ac.uk/internationalDevelopment/pdf/WP/WP138.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development/Assets/Documents/PDFs/Dissertation/Prizewinning-Dissertations/PWD-2012/WP138.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
