Justice and Economic Violence in Transition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Addressing Economic Violence in Times of Transition

   • Dustin N. Sharp

   Pages 1-26

3. Liberal Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: What Place for Socioeconomic Concerns?

   • Chandra Lekha Sriram

   Pages 27-49

4. The Trilemma of Promoting Economic Justice at War’s End

   • Topher L. McDougal

   Pages 51-77

5. Economic Violence in the Practice of African Truth Commissions and Beyond

   • Dustin N. Sharp

   Pages 79-107

6. Reparations and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

   • Naomi Roht-Arriaza

   Pages 109-138

7. Corruption, Human Rights, and Activism: Useful Connections and Their Limits

   • Chris Albin-Lackey

   Pages 139-163

8. Transitional Justice, Development, and Economic Violence

   • Roger Duthie

   Pages 165-201

9. Reimagining Transitional Justice for an Enduring Peace: Accounting for Natural Resources in Conflict

   • Sandra S. Nichols

   Pages 203-231

10. Financial Complicity: The Brazilian Dictatorship Under the “Macroscope”

    • Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Marcelo D. Torelly

    Pages 233-262

11. Land Policy and Transitional Justice After Armed Conflicts

    • Daniel Fitzpatrick, Akiva Fishman

    Pages 263-287

12. Conclusion: From Periphery to Foreground

    • Dustin N. Sharp

    Pages 289-297

13. Back Matter

    Pages 299-328

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​​​​This book examines the role of economic violence (violations of economic and social rights, corruption, and plunder of natural resources) within the transitional justice agenda. Because economic violence often leads to conflict, is perpetrated during conflict, and continues afterwards as a legacy of conflict, a greater focus on economic and social rights issues in the transitional justice context is critical. One might add that insofar as transitional justice is increasingly seen as an instrument of peacebuilding rather than a simple political transition, focus on economic violence as the crucial “root cause” is key to preventing re-lapse into conflict. Recent increasing attention to economic issues by academics and truth commissions suggest this may be slowly changing, and that economic and social rights may represent the “next frontier” of transitional justice concerns. There remain difficult questions that have yet to be worked out at the level of theory, policy, and practice. Further scholarship in this regard is both timely, and necessary. This volume therefore presents an opportunity to fill an important gap. The project will bring together new papers by recognized and emerging scholars and policy experts in the field.​

• economic violence
• liberal international peacebuilding
• reparations and economic rights
• transition to positive peace
• truth commissions and narratives of conflict

• Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego, San Diego, USA

  Dustin N. Sharp

Dustin Sharp is an Assistant Professor at the Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego. He teaches courses on transitional justice and international human rights law and advocacy. Professor Sharp’s research focuses on the role of law in post-conflict reconstruction, transitional justice, and the intersection of economic development and human rights. He has over seven years experience working on issues of human rights, transitional justice, and educational development in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has been a regular media commentator on Radio France International, the BBC and Voice of America regarding conflict dynamics in the region.

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