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Structural Violence, Socioeconomic Rights, and Transformative Justice

Matthew Evans
- 01 Jan 2016 - 
- Vol. 15, Iss: 1, pp 1-20
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In this article, the authors highlight the significance of structural violence in producing and reproducing violations of human rights, particularly of socioeconomic rights, and discuss the potential for transformative (rather than transitional) justice in postconflict and postauthoritarian contexts.
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This article provides a critique of the scope of existing models of transitional justice, which focus on legal and quasi-legal remedies for a narrow set of civil and political rights violations. The article highlights the significance of structural violence in producing and reproducing violations of human rights, particularly of socioeconomic rights. There is a need to utilize a different toolkit and a different understanding of human rights from that typically employed in transitional justice in order to remedy structural violations of human rights. Focusing on a case study of land inequalities in postapartheid South Africa, the potential for transformative (rather than transitional) justice in postconflict and postauthoritarian contexts is discussed. The article outlines a definition of transformative justice, relevant actors, and relationships for such an agenda and discusses the kinds of strategies that promise a more transformative approach.

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