Transitional Justice in a non-Western Setting

非西方背景下的转型正义

• 批准号: AH/E005039/1
• 负责人: Tim Kelsall
• 金额: $ 2.31万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE005039%2F1
• 关键词: Transitional; Justice; non; Western; Setting

In 2002 Sierra Leone's brutal 11 year civil war was declared over. Efforts are now underway to consolidate peace. Critical to this project are initiatives in the justice sector, with attempts to reform the local courts, an international war crimes tribunal to try the masterminds of the conflict, and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to restore dignity to the victims and if possible reconcile them with their perpetrators. The question is whether these initiatives are appropriate in a country such as Sierra Leone where certain aspects of local culture, such as strong beliefs in the supernatural and a belief in the virtue of secretiveness, seem at odds with international standards of justice. The fieldwork for this project used anthropological observation, interviews and questionnaires to investigate whether the cultural clash between international and local ideas of justice proved overwhelming, or whether there was evidence of a cross-cultural exchange. It found that international ideas of justice find some success in local culture, but that they don't always succeed in the ways their supporters imagined, and that international justice is far from colonizing the local cultures of Sierra Leone.The proposed research will supplement the results of fieldwork with a desk study and an analysis of trial and truth commission transcripts, writing up the results as a research monograph.

2002年，塞拉利昂长达11年的内战宣告结束。目前正在努力巩固和平。对这一项目至关重要的是在司法部门采取主动行动，努力改革地方法院，设立一个国际战争罪法庭审判冲突的策划者，并设立一个真相与和解委员会，恢复受害者的尊严，并在可能的情况下使他们与肇事者和解。问题是，在塞拉利昂这样一个地方文化的某些方面，如对超自然现象的强烈信仰和对隐秘美德的信仰，似乎与国际司法标准不一致的国家，这些举措是否适当。该项目的实地工作采用了人类学观察、访谈和问卷调查，以调查国际和地方司法观念之间的文化冲突是否证明是压倒性的，或者是否有跨文化交流的证据。研究发现，国际司法理念在当地文化中取得了一些成功，但并不总是像其支持者所想象的那样取得成功，国际司法远未殖民化塞拉利昂的当地文化，拟议的研究将补充实地工作的结果，进行案头研究，分析审判和真相委员会的记录，并将结果写成研究专著。