colm campbell transitional justice institute (uu)
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Colm CampbellTransitional Justice Institute (UU)
Transitional Justice: GapsArmed Opposition movements…
Subjects rather than merely objects Agency & entrepreneurship
…as social movementsMobilising structuresPolitical opportunity structureFraming processes
Victims and perpetratorsDichotomous: victim or perpetratorDyadic: victim and perpetrator
Mobilising StructuresBi-furcated (typically)
PartyArmed entity
ANC & MK, Fatah (PLO) &Tanzim, ETA &BatasunaDemobilisation of armed entity (DDR)Party mobilisationRelationship of one to the other?
Splits and flanking threats
Peace Process: Political Opportunity StructureRoute to political powerNew alliancesDamage enemies and opponentsEntrepreneurshipFlanking threats
Framing ProcessesFrame resonance: targets of mobilizationFrame bridging: making new alliancesFraming and entrepreneurshipCompromise: diagnostic & prognosticFraming battles:
The stateOpponentsPotential flankers
‘The Past’ as opportunity and riskTruth processes as battlegrounds (SATRC)Framing battle: whose version resonates?Political opportunities: damage enemies and
opponentsvictim-perpetrator dyads
Self-investigationApology ()
Space for flankers?
NI’s past as framing battleIs there a ‘past’?Whose story resonates?How to get there? (inquiries, truth etc.)In the past, nobody won; can battle over past
be won now?
Bloody Sunday TribunalResonance of findingsCameron’s apology-apologiaWithout a truth commission, what’s the NI
story?Depriving flankers (diagnostic-prognostic
framing)
Entrepreneurship:‘no return to Stormont’11 UK-imposed obstacle to Irish reunification
(‘occupation’ frame). 12 symbol of discrimination (‘injustice’ frame)13 geographical site
Apology-apologia(2002) IRA: ‘It is therefore appropriate… that
we address all of the deaths… of non-combatants caused by us. We offer our sincere apologies and condolences to their families
Apology-aplogia (‘combatant’ language)
Kicking to touch? - Truth/legacy commission? Bradley-Eames processDemanding UN involvement?Amnesty for truth?
ConclusionsPolitical opportunities effectively exploitedDemobilisation and party mobilisation well
handledFraming battles – variable Victim-perpetrator dyadic