Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Transitional Justice Social Movement

过渡司法项目倾向于倡导真相委员会，以抗议有罪不罚现象，并防止未来侵犯人权。本项目将过渡时期司法作为一项跨国社会运动加以考察。研究的核心问题是跨国社会运动最初是如何设定议程的，以及随着时间的推移，议程是如何演变的。这项研究侧重于运动参与者之间的内部动态，形成运动战略的外部政治力量，以及制定真相委员会目标的过程。第一阶段包括对850名自我确认的运动参与者进行广泛的调查，然后对关键线人进行深入的定性访谈。研究自我认同的运动积极分子将有助于深入了解该运动如何定义其目标和选择其战略，以及了解运动积极分子之间的紧张关系。这项研究的第二阶段是对真相委员会目前在哥伦比亚准军事暴力和布什政府时期酷刑政策方面的努力进行的人种学比较研究。联合PI利用与几个组织的参与者观察实地工作，这些组织正在推动真相委员会，以纠正国家支持的暴力行为。她还对主要线人进行定性采访，并对媒体报道进行档案研究，以分析这两个国家的运动议程是如何制定和随着时间的推移而演变的。这些调查结果将增加我们对社会运动如何产生的理解，并揭示纠正侵犯人权行为的相互竞争的目标和战略。

Transitional justice programs tend to advocate for truth commissions to protest impunity and to prevent future human rights violations. This project examines transitional justice as a transnational social movement. The central research question is how a transnational social movement sets its agenda initially and how that agenda evolves over time. The study focuses on the internal dynamics among movement participants, the external political forces that shape movement strategies, and the processes by which truth commission goals are formulated. The first phase involves a broad based survey of 850 self identified movement participants, followed by in depth qualitative interviews with key informants. Studying self-identified movement activists will provide insight into how the movement defines its goals and chooses its strategies as well as into tensions among movement activists. The second phase of the study is a comparative ethnographic study of current truth commission efforts regarding paramilitary violence in Colombia and torture policies under the Bush administration. The co-PI utilizes participant observation fieldwork with several organizations that are promoting truth commissions to redress state sponsored violence. She also conducts qualitative interviews with key informants and archival research on media reports to analyze how the movement agendas are set and evolve over time in these two countries. The findings will increase our understanding of how a social movement emerges and reveal competing goals and strategies to redress human rights abuses.