ABSTRACT

This article evaluates the pillar of reparations within transitional justice and contributes to debates about the significance of structural socio-economic reform in post-conflict societies. Drawing on the experiences of South Africa and Tunisia, I argue that transitional justice must advocate a praxis of transformative reparations. Transformative reparations, working alongside complementary mechanisms within a long-term transitional justice agenda, can help to enable the transformation of groups, communities, and regions out of generational cycles of poverty, discrimination, and exclusion. Those engaged and active in such processes are thus afforded the resources and centrally positioned to (self-)empower the renegotiation of power relations that facilitated past and ongoing structural socio-economic violations.

摘要

本文评估了过渡时期司法中的赔偿支柱，并有助于关于结构性社会经济改革在冲突后社会中的重要性的辩论。借鉴南非和突尼斯的经验，我认为过渡时期司法必须提倡变革性赔偿的实践。变革性赔偿与长期过渡司法议程中的互补机制一起工作，有助于使群体、社区和地区摆脱贫困、歧视和排斥的世代循环。因此，那些参与和积极参与此类进程的人获得了资源，并处于中央位置，以（自我）授权重新谈判权力关系，这些权力关系助长了过去和持续的结构性社会经济违规行为。