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Global Victimhood: On the Charisma of the Victim in Transitional Justice Processes
Ist Teil von
World political science review, 2013-04, Vol.9 (1), p.97-129
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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Since the 1990s, transitional justice has become almost synonymous with the concern for the rights of victims. Compared with the Nuremberg Trials -- in which victims did not even appear as witnesses -- this is a major change and one for which an explanation will be sought here with recourse to neo-institutional research perspective. The core argument put forward in this article is that the change in transitional justice towards a stronger inclusion of victims could be explained as the result of the expansion of a rationalist world culture in which a model of victimhood is created and diffused worldwide, primarily through international organizations and NGOs. This notion of global victimhood developed only after World War II, following the global diffusion of human rights, the change in academic conceptions of traumatic experiences and the advocacy of International NGOs, so that the development of normative pressure on national transitional justice processes placed victims at the centre of processes dealing with the past. Adapted from the source document.