Roundtable: Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics
The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, along with the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies, the Institute for the Study of International Development, and the Research Group on Constitutional Studies invites you to a roundtable discussion on Catherine Lu's book (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Speakers include Arash Abizadeh, Ryoa Chung, Paolo Gilabert, Vincent Pouliot, and the author, Catherine Lu.
From the book's description
Calls for justice and reconciliation in response to political catastrophes are widespread in contemporary world politics. What implications do these normative strivings have in relation to colonial injustice? Examining cases of colonial war, genocide, forced sexual labor, forcible incorporation, and dispossession, Lu demonstrates that international practices of justice and reconciliation have historically suffered from, and continue to reflect, colonial, statist and other structural biases. The continued reproduction of structural injustice and alienation in modern domestic, international and transnational orders generates contemporary duties of redress. How should we think about the responsibility of contemporary agents to address colonial structural injustices and what implications follow for the transformation of international and transnational orders? Redressing the structural injustices implicated in or produced by colonial politics requires strategies of decolonization, decentering, and disalienation that go beyond interactional practices of justice and reconciliation, beyond victims and perpetrators, and beyond a statist world order.
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