Abstract
Killean considers the applicability of Environmental Restorative Justice (ERJ) in transitional settings. Bringing critical transitional justice scholarship into dialogue with the emerging body of environmental restorative justice literature, this chapter argues that ERJ offers a challenge to two of the transitional justice field’s limitations. First, an ERJ approach offers a challenge to transitional justice’s anthropocentrism, by creating space for the recognition and representation of other-than-human victims of conflict. Second, ERJ offers a challenge to the field’s neo-colonial tendencies, by facilitating the design of mechanisms that are more inclusive of Indigenous harms and understandings of justice. By entrenching an ERJ ethos, the chapter argues that transitional justice may present one effective vehicle for rethinking relationships between diverse human communities and the natural world.
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See https://www.jep.gov.co/Paginas (last accessed 25 January 2022).
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Minister del Interior, Decreto Ley No. 4633, DE 2011, Por medio del cual se dictan medidas de asistencia, atención, reparación integral y de restitución de derechos territoriales a las víctimas pertenecientes a los Pueblos y Comunidades indígenas.
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Jurisdicción Especial Para la Paz, Reglamento General, Acuerdo No. 001 DE 2018, Por el cual se adopta el Reglamento General de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz; For a brief description of a harmonisation ritual see Cabrera (2019).
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