Joseph Evans, Reconciliation and Reparation: Preaching Economic Justice

Transitional Justice and Reconciliation: Theory and Practice

EXCERPTED FROM Connecting Peace , Justice , and Reconciliation

Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Empowerment in Transitional Justice

The last decades have seen a rise in the public use of notions from the forgiveness discourse. In the present paper it is examined what role forgiveness, reconciliation and empowerment can play in the practice of transitional justice. On the basis of empirical findings, it is shown that forgiveness is too high an ideal to aim at. The promotion of forgiveness can generate much resistance, and ev...

Joseph Mendola , Goodness and Justice : A Consequentialist Moral

Joseph Mendola’s ambitious goal in this philosophically rich book is to provide a comprehensive account of goodness and justice which coheres with our intuitions and which is also thoroughly justified by independent metaphysical arguments. The project has three distinct parts. The first part develops a new form of act-consequentialism, which focuses on group agents and their acts, called Multip...

Reconciliation and Justice after Genocide: A Theoretical Exploration

This article argues that the post-conflict reconciliation process is undermined by the importance given to the retributive form of justice dominating peacebuilding and transitional justice measures. Retributive justice reinforces the division between perpetrator and victim, thus undermining the reconciliation process between antagonistic parties. The so-called objective categories of perpetrato...