Hoddy, E. orcid.org/0000-0003-0549-8285 and Gready, P. (2020) From agency to root causes : addressing structural barriers to transformative justice in transitional and post-conflict settings. Contemporary Social Science, 15 (5). pp. 561-576. ISSN 2158-2041
Abstract
Transformative justice has emerged as a new practice agenda for addressing structural and systemic violence in post-conflict and post-authoritarian societies. This article is situated at a critical juncture: while the emerging scholarship has focussed on community agency and action, there is little as yet that has explored the social structures and relations in transition societies that are harm-generating and which constrain action. We argue that a critical social science, grounded in realist social theory, systems thinking and complexity theory, have a vital role to play in rendering transparent the relations and structures that resist change. New knowledge about the ‘root causes’ of harm is both conceptually innovative and useful to practice, helping practitioners identify societal arrangements in need of change and informing strategies for action. This article illustrates this approach through its application to a study with poor farmers in post-Revolution Tunisia. The article should be of interest to researchers and practitioners in transitional and transformative justice, conflict and post-conflict, peacebuilding, and security sector reform, who are engaged with understanding and addressing issues of structural and systemic violence.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | transitional justice; social sciences; root causes; structures; post-conflict; transformative justice |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Economic and Social Research Council ES/T009055/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2020 08:55 |
Last Modified: | 26 Jan 2022 13:55 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/21582041.2020.1812706 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:164461 |