Global Victimhood: On the Charisma of the Victim in Transitional Justice Processes

Q3 Social Sciences
Thorsten Bonacker
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Abstract 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.
全球受害者:论转型司法过程中受害者的魅力
自20世纪90年代以来,过渡时期司法几乎成为关注受害者权利的代名词。与纽伦堡审判相比,在纽伦堡审判中受害者甚至没有作为证人出庭,这是一个重大的变化,这里将借助新制度研究的观点来寻求对其的解释。本文提出的核心论点是,过渡时期司法向更大程度上包容受害者的转变可以解释为理性主义世界文化扩张的结果,在这种文化中,一种受害者模式被创造出来,并主要通过国际组织和非政府组织在世界范围内传播。这种全球受害者的概念是在第二次世界大战后发展起来的,当时人权在全球传播,创伤经历的学术概念发生了变化,国际非政府组织也开始倡导,因此,对国家过渡时期司法程序的规范性压力的发展将受害者置于处理过去的进程的中心。
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World Political Science
World Political Science Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations
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期刊介绍: World Political Science (WPS) publishes translations of prize-winning articles nominated by prominent national political science associations and journals around the world. Scholars in a field as international as political science need to know about important political research produced outside the English-speaking world. Sponsored by the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the premiere global political science organization with membership from national assoications 50 countries worldwide WPS gathers together and translates an ever-increasing number of countries'' best political science articles, bridging the language barriers that have made this cutting-edge research inaccessible up to now. Articles in the World Political Science cover a wide range of subjects of interest to readers concerned with the systematic analysis of political issues facing national, sub-national and international governments and societies. Fields include Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Sociology, Political Theory, Political Economy, and Public Administration and Policy. Anyone interested in the central issues of the day, whether they are students, policy makers, or other citizens, will benefit from greater familiarity with debates about the nature and solutions to social, economic and political problems carried on in non-English language forums.
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