Everyday Care Beyond Courts

• In Event: Poster Session: Women and Politics Research I

Abstract

This paper utilizes feminist care ethics to create a theoretical approach to transitional justice that, though stemming from an examination of women’s concerns and care needs, can be applicable to both gendered and ethnicized others across the society, as well as bridge the gaps between dichotomized transitional justice and development/peacebuilding, and within dichotomized retributive justice and restorative justice. The key argument of this paper is that caring transitional justice ought to produce a more successful transitional justice process since wrongs and the role of identity in past atrocities will be more fully addressed, increasing the probability that the society will feel that past wrongs have been adequately addressed and that the society to emerge will be inclusive in ways that will preclude future returns to violence.

Author

• Laura Roost, Newberry College