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- Title
Globale Opferschaft: Zum Charisma des Opfers in Transitional Justice-Prozessen.
- Authors
Bonacker, Thorsten
- Abstract
Since the 1990s, Transitional Justice has become almost equivalent to the concern of seeing that victims experience justice. In comparison to the Nuremberg Trials - where victims could not even appear as witnesses - there has been a major shift that needs to be explained. In order to do this the following contribution is drawing on a macro-sociological research perspective. I will argue that the general shift to a wider inclusion of victims within Transitional Justice can be understood as the consequence of an expanding rationalistic world culture that creates a global pattern of victimhood which is primarily propagated via international organizations and non-governmental organizations. The advocating action of (I)NGOs and the scientific understanding of trauma developed after Second World War is leading to a normative pressure on national Transitional Justice processes to make sure that victims are at the center stage of dealing with the past.
- Subjects
TRANSITIONAL justice; RESTORATIVE justice; HUMAN rights &; globalization; LAW &; globalization; TRUTH commissions; WORLD culture; VICTIMS' rights; VICTIMS of state-sponsored terrorism; NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations; PHILOSOPHY of international law; INTERNATIONAL criminal law; GLOBALIZATION &; society; INTERNATIONAL cooperation
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB), 2012, Vol 19, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0946-7165
- Publication type
Article