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Abstract
This essay reviews recent developments in transitional justice (TJ)
scholarship that represent an emerging corporate turn in TJ. TJ has
traditionally focused primarily on states and state-like actors, a
movement that has gone hand in hand with the increasing standardization
of TJ as a field of practice. Highlighting some of the limits to this
model of TJ, scholars have since early 2000s been calling for the need
to include economic actors in the TJ system. These four books that have
all been published between 2020 and 2022 reflect a new momentum for this
movement within TJ scholarship. They all highlight, in different ways,
how complimentary innovative mechanisms and creative legal combinations
have led and can lead to holding economic actors accountable for past
abuse. Corporate accountability has been a blind spot in the
increasingly standardized approach to TJ, but this emerging corporate
turn represents a possibility to innovating the TJ standard to include
“new” actors as subjects of accountability. All books, however, also
show that this is far from a straightforward process as it involves
transforming the deeply engrained and rigid international law and human
rights system, which have usually protected economic elites and focused
on states.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Cooperation and Conflict |
Volume | 58 |
Issue number | 4 |
Pages (from-to) | 561-571 |
Number of pages | 11 |
ISSN | 0010-8367 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Mar 2023 |
Keywords
- business and human rights
- corporate accountability
- corporate turn
- international law
- transitional justice
Projects
- 1 Active
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The Standardisation of Transitional Justice: Consolidation, Innovation and Politics
Gissel, L. E. (Project manager), Jakobsen, L. J. (Project participant), Hansen, T. O. (Project participant) & Fernandes, W. S. (Project participant)
Independent Research Fund Denmark
01/01/2022 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research
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