Untold Stories: Ex-Combatant Silences in Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding Pub Date : 2023-02-06 DOI:10.1080/17502977.2022.2152617

Sayra van den Berg

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The transformative promises of truth commissions equate participation with agency. This article empirically thickens understandings of local agency within transitional justice by disentangling the ways in which ex-combatants were silenced by, and chose silence within, Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Illuminating externally enforced silences reveals the theft of agency experienced by ex-combatants within the TRC. Examining TRC silences chosen by ex-combatants exposes the agency of silences deployed by this population and unsettles assumptions that equate participation with agency.

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不为人知的故事:前战斗人员在塞拉利昂真相与和解委员会的沉默

真相委员会的变革承诺将参与等同于代理。本文通过剖析前战斗人员被塞拉利昂真相与和解委员会(TRC)噤声和选择噤声的方式，从经验上加深了对过渡时期司法中地方机构的理解。外部强制的沉默揭示了TRC内部的前战斗人员所经历的机构盗窃。检查前战斗人员选择的TRC沉默暴露了这一人群部署的沉默代理，并动摇了将参与等同于代理的假设。

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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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5.20

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20.00%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding is a cross-disciplinary journal devoted to critical analysis of international intervention, focussing on interactions and practices that shape, influence and transform states and societies. In 21st century political practice, states and other actors increasingly strive to transplant what they see as normatively progressive political orders to other contexts. Accordingly, JISB focuses on the complex interconnections and mutually shaping interactions between donor and recipient communities within military, economic, social, or other interventional contexts, and welcomes perspectives on political life of, and beyond, European state-building processes. The journal brings together academics and practitioners from cross-disciplinary backgrounds, including international relations, political science, political economy, sociology, international law, social anthropology, geography, and regional studies. The editors are particularly interested in specific or comparative in-depth analyses of contemporary or historical interventions and state-building processes that are grounded in careful fieldwork and/or innovative methodologies. Multi or cross-disciplinary contributions and theoretically challenging pieces that broaden the study of intervention and state building to encompass processes of decision-making, or the complex interplay between actors on the ground, are especially encouraged.