This pioneering collection breaks new ground by examining how post-atrocity justice affects and is informed by familial relationships, particularly between parents and children.
Moving beyond traditional discussions of victims and perpetrators, this volume centres the dynamics of care, responsibility, and identity in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It explores how attempts at addressing legacies of mass atrocity can undermine or strengthen families. Drawing on global case studies and innovative interdisciplinary insights, chapters reveal how socially constructed ideas about parenthood and childhood inform notions of responsibility with and for children within transitional justice frameworks.
Arvustused
"Wanton wars on children in DRC, Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere make accountability more urgent and more fraught. This much-needed book calls on transitional justice to go beyond shopworn (and often paternalistic) invocations of best interests of the child and child-centric processes by paying greater attention to families and inter-generational relationality, as well as to critical childhood studies and care ethics." Lars Waldorf, Northumbria University, UK "Combining sophisticated theoretical analysis with rich empirical research, this edited collection goes straight to the heart of the most fundamental of all human relationships. It is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of transitional justice." Renee Jeffery, Griffith Asia Institute "An important volume that highlights how the family can and must be considered in any process to address broader legacies of violence in communities seeking to move beyond it." Simon Robins, Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York "A necessary and truly global contribution to peacebuilding discussions, highlighting the family dimension and paternalist logics of transitional justice practices. A must read to reflect on effective sustainable peace." Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli, University of Sheffield
Introduction. Familial Care and Paternalism: The Parent-Child
Relationship and Transitional Justice - Kirsten J. Fisher and Caitlin Mollica
PART I: Conceptualising Familial Transitional Justice Relationships
1. Grown-Ups, Grown-Downs, and Pan Generationality Mark A. Drumbl
2. Childhood and the Parent Subject: Encounters in Public Memory J.
Marshall Beier
3. Queering Childhood and Paternalism in Global Transitional Justice
Caitlin Biddolph
PART II: Governed and Governing Familial Transitional Justice Relationships
4. Rights to Supported Families and Non-Discrimination: The Ugandan National
Transitional Justice Response to Children Born of War Kirsten J. Fisher and
Jess Mugero
5. Transitional Justice as an Illusion: The Guatemalan State as Parent
Leonzo Barreno (Kiche Maya)
6. Childrens Voices: The Implementation of An Act Respecting First Nations,
Inuit and Metis Children, Youth, and Families as a Transitional Justice Tool
in Saskatchewan Canada Jamesy Patrick
7. Child- and Family-Sensitive Transitional Justice Policy Implementation in
Africa Bonny Ibhawoh and Adebisi Alade
8. 'Artisans of Peace': When Children Challenge the Parent/Child Dichotomy in
Contexts of Transitional Justice Cadhla OSullivan
PART III: Lived Experience of Familial Transitional Justice Relationships
9. A Search for Belonging: Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
in Northern Uganda and Post-Conflict Reunification with Paternal Families
Myriam Denov, Nathaniel Mosseau, and Atim Angela Lakor
10. Parents, Children and Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda: Intergenerational
Echoes of Gacaca Trials Barbora Holá, Veroni Eichelsheim, Lidewyde
Berckmoes and Annemiek Richters
11. Undermining Family and Social Relationships in Iraqi Transitional
Processes Yousra Hasona
12. Child Soldiers and Family Reunification in Nepal: Victimhood in the
Absence of Justice Kate Macfarlane
13. Mothers and Childrens Resilience in the Context of the Years of Lead
and their Involvement in the Transitional Justice Process in Morocco Aziz
Saidi
PART IV: Concluding Reflections
14. Reflections on the Parent-Child Relationship in International Relations,
Childhood Studies, and Transitional Justice Caitlin Mollica and Kirsten J.
Fisher
15. Reappearing what Disappears: Children, Families, and Relationships in
Justice, Transitions, and Transitional Justice Mark Kersten
16. Relationalities and Temporalities Beyond Binaries Helen Berents
Kirsten J. Fisher is Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Caitlin Mollica is Assistant Professor for the Business School at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
