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Reconciliations (Melanesian style) and transitional justice

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Pages 139-157 | Received 02 Aug 2018, Accepted 20 Dec 2018, Published online: 22 Jan 2019
 

ABSTRACT

This article examines kastom reconciliations as practiced in a Melanesian cultural context in the resolution of everyday disputes and as a means of peacebuilding after large-scale violent conflict. It explores Melanesian-style reconciliation in relation to the conventional international discourse on transitional justice, asking whether kastom reconciliations are – or can be – an alternative to, or a specific ‘vernacularised’ form of, transitional justice. Using examples primarily from post-conflict Bougainville and Solomon Islands, the article addresses some of the strengths and limitations of kastom reconciliation in comparison to those of transitional justice. In conclusion it is posited that protagonists of transitional justice could gain insights from the study of Melanesian reconciliations that would help them to reflect on their own taken-for-granted assumptions and consider avenues for developing the concept of transitional justice, making it more meaningful, effective and legitimate in a context such as Melanesia.

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Notes on contributor

Volker Boege is an HonoraryResearch Fellow with the School of Political Science and International Studies at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. His research focuses on post-conflict peacebuilding, with a regional focus on Oceania.

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1 Aaron P. Boesenecker and Leslie Vinjamuri, ‘Lost in Translation? Civil Society, Faith-Based Organizations and the Negotiation of International Norms’, The International Journal of Transitional Justice 5 (2011), 345–365, 347.

2 Erin Baines, ‘Spirits and Social Reconstruction After Mass Violence: Rethinking Transitional Justice’, African Affairs 109, no. 436 (2010): 409–430, 412.

3 Volker Boege et al., ‘Challenging Statebuilding as Peacebuilding – Working with Hybrid Political Orders to Build Peace’, in Palgrave Advances in Peacebuilding: Critical Developments and Approaches, ed. Oliver P. Richmond (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 99–115.

4 Renee Jeffery, ‘Transitional Justice and the Tensions’, in Transitional Justice in Practice. Conflict, Justice and Reconciliation in the Solomon Islands, ed. R. Jeffery (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 1–36, 2.

5 Charles T. Hunt, ‘Beyond the Binaries: Towards a Relational Approach to Peacebuilding’, Global Change, Peace & Security 29, no. 3 (2017): 209–227; Morgan Brigg, ‘Beyond the Thrall of the State: Governance as a Relational-Affective Effect in Solomon Islands’, Cooperation and Conflict 53, no. 2 (2018), 154–172.

6 Upolu Luma Vaai and Unaisi Nabobo-Baba, ‘Introduction’, in The Relational Self. Decolonising Personhood in the Pacific, eds. U. L. Vaai and U. Nabobo-Baba (Suva: University of the South Pacific Press, 2017), 1–21, 11. See also Upolu Luma Vaai and Aisake Casimira, ‘Introduction: A Relational Renaissance’, in Relational Hermeneutics. Decolonising the Mindset and the Pacific Itulagi, eds. U. L. Vaai and A. Casimira (Suva: University of the South Pacific Press, 2017), 1–15.

7 Upolu Luma Vaai, ‘Relational Hermeneutics. A Return to the Relationality of the Pacific Itulagi as a Lens for Understanding and Interpreting Life’, in Vaai and Casimira, Relational Hermeneutics, 17–41.

8 Brigg, ‘Thrall’.

9 This means of course: unexpected and unfamiliar as seen from a Western point of view.

10 Emma Hutchinson and Roland Bleiker, ‘Emotional Reconciliation. Reconstituting Identity and Community After Trauma’, European Journal of Social Theory 11, no. 3 (2008), 385–403, 393.

11 On the relationality of reconciliation see John Paul Lederach and Angela Jill Lederach, When Blood and Bones Cry Out: Journeys Through the Soundscape of Healing and Reconciliation (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2010). On relationality in a Melanesian context and the understanding of the Melanesian ‘va’ – ‘the space between’, that is: a relational space that separates and joins, not least connecting the spiritual and the secular – see the contributions in Vaai and Nabobo-Baba, Relational Self.

12 Unaisi Nabobo-Baba, ‘In the Vanua. Personhood and Death within a Fijian Relational Ontology’, in Vaai and Nabobo-Baba, Relational Self, 163–175, 163. For this relational understanding of personhood in a Melanesian cultural context see also Gordon Leua Nanau, ‘“Na Vanuagu”. Epistemology and Personhood in Tathimboko, Guadalcanal’ in ibid., 177–201. This understanding resonates with the African concept of Ubuntu, in the context of which “a person can only be a person through others” and personhood is understood “as rooted in a context of relationships” (Patrick Tom, ‘A “post-liberal Peace” via Ubuntu?’, Peacebuilding 6, no. 1 (2018): 65–79, 71).

13 Jeffery, ‘Transitional Justice’.

14 Sally Engle Merry, Human Rights and Gender Violence (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 9.

15 Melanesia in the south-west of the Pacific region comprises of the political entities of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia/Kanaky, (West) Papua, and the Torres Straits Islands.

16 M. Anne Brown, ‘Security and Development: Conflict and Resilience in the Pacific Islands Region’, in Security and Development in the Pacific Islands. Social Resilience in Emerging States, ed. M. A. Brown (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2007), 1–31, 10.

17 The term ‘local-local’ was introduced into the peacebuilding discourse in order to differentiate a genuinely local sphere from exactly this kind of local liberal civil society which is introduced from the outside and emulates originally Western forms of civil society; of course, these spheres overlap, mix and blend to a certain extent; see Oliver P Richmond, ‘A Pedagogy of Peacebuilding: Infrapolitics, Resistance, and Liberation’, International Political Sociology 6 (2012): 1–17, 6.

18 The Pacific Centre for Peacebuilding or Transcend Oceania (both Suva, Fiji) can be mentioned here.

19 Vernacularisation refers to processes of transferring ideas, norms, concepts and practices (such as human rights or the rule of law) from the international sphere into specific local cultural contexts, carried out by intermediaries or bridge-builders capable to mediate between international and local institutions and actors. Sally Engle Merry, ‘Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle’, American Anthropologist 108, no. 1: 38–51.

20 Kastom, a Pidgin derivative of the English ‘custom’, is referred to by both people in the village and politicians in Melanesia today in order to stress their cultural heritage and the difference between their own ways and foreign ways of governance, economics, conflict resolution, peacebuilding etc., often depicting kastom as rooted in ancient pre-colonial traditions, a set of rules developed by the ancestors (Roger M. Keesing, ‘Kastom Re-Examined’, Anthropological Forum 6, no.4 (1993): 587–596, 589). Kastom governance is thus presented as the other of, or even alternative to, introduced state-based governance. At the same time, kastom is different from the customs of the pre-contact and pre-colonial past. It has developed since the times of first contact and colonization in the course of interaction and exchange of pre-contact custom and various external influences - Christian missions, colonial administrations, institutions of the nation state and the market economy. It continued to develop after the establishment of independent nation states, and it continues to change today. Kastom is not anachronistic, fixed and static, it changes all the time in the course of dealing with new challenges.

21 Volker Boege, Traditional Approaches to Conflict Transformation – Potentials and Limits (Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation. Berlin: Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, 2006), 6.

22 This also applies to the term ‘reconciliation’ as used over the last decades in the parlance of peacebuilding and transitional justice – with an abstract generic de-contextualised understanding of reconciliation. By contrast, this article does not endeavor to present a general definition of ‘reconciliation’, instead it traces the understanding of the term by local people in a specific social and cultural context.

23 For the following see in more detail Volker Boege and Lorraine Garasu, ‘Bougainville: A Source of Inspiration for Conflict Resolution’, in Mediating Across Difference. Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution, eds. M. Brigg and R. Bleiker (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2011), 163–182.

24 For an ideal typical traditional reconciliation process see James Tanis, ‘Reconciliation: My Side of the Island’, in Weaving Consensus – The Papua New Guinea – Bougainville Peace Process, eds. A. Carl and L. Garasu (Conciliation Resources Accord Issue 12/2002; London: Conciliation Resources, 2002), 58–61.

25 This ‘truth’, however, can be different from the ‘truth’ strived for in transitional justice, e.g. via ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commissions’. On different types of truth see Wendy Lambourne, ‘Transformative Justice, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding’, in Transitional Justice Theories, eds. S. Buckley-Zistel et al. (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2014), 19–39.

26 Often there is no clear-cut boundary between victims and perpetrators. The victims of today might have been the perpetrators in the past, and vice versa. In wars like in Bougainville or Solomon Islands the phenomenon of victims-turned-perpetrators and perpetrators-turned-victims is quite common.

27 Kimberly Theidon, ‘Justice in Transition. The Micro-Politics of Reconciliation in Postwar Peru’, Journal of Conflict Resolution 50, no. 3 (2006): 433–457, 453.

28 Corbett, Jack, ‘“A Calling from God”: Politicians and Religiosity in the Pacific Islands’, Global Change, Peace & Security 25, no. 3 (2013): 283–297, demonstrates that analytic distinctions like state, society and religion are problematic in the Pacific societal context.

29 In some places, for instance, people bury large stones. “The significance of the stone is that it is heavy and it does not move and it gives a sign of strong and unchanging reconciliation between the people” (Pat Howley, Breaking Spears and Mending Hearts. Peacemakers and Restorative Justice in Bougainville. London – Annandale: Zed Books – The Federation Press, 2002), 111. In other places the parties “would plant tangget plants on stone. This symbolised their promise to forget the past and remain as silent as stone. Anyone who violated this agreement would be cursed by the stone and any talebearer would be punished by its strength” (Tanis, ‘Reconciliation’, 59). Or: members of conflict parties chew betel-nut together, spit into a hole that was dug, and then a stone is planted on top of the hole, and people shake hands and share food. This ceremony “references a kastom belief that, once a reconciliation has been completed, one should remain silent as stone: the actions that caused the hevi will not be forgotten but they have been forgiven”. Dwyer Paul, ‘Peacebuilding Performances in the Aftermath of War. Lessons from Bougainville’, in Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre, eds. J. Hughes and H. Nicholson (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016), 127–149, 144.

30 On the entwinement of kastom and Christianity and their complementary use see Debra McDougall, with Joy Kere, ‘Christianity, Custom, and Law. Conflict and Peacemaking in the Postconflict Solomon Islands’, in Mediating Across Difference. Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution, eds. M. Brigg and R. Bleiker (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2011), 141–162.

31 Renee Jeffery, ‘Reconciliation and the Rule of Law in the Solomon Islands’, in Transitional Justice in the Asia Pacific, eds. R. Jeffery and Hun Joon Kim (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 195–227, 213; Tanis, ‘Reconciliation’, 60.

32 Cynthia Cohen, ‘Creative Approaches to Reconciliation’, in The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts. From War to Peace. Volume 3: Interventions, eds. Mari Fitzduff and Chris E. Stout (Westport, Conn and London: Praeger Security International, 2006), 69–102. She also makes the point that ‘purposeful rationality is inadequate to the task of reconciliation” (69).

33 See the title of Pat Howley's book, Howley, ‘Breaking Spears and Mending Hearts’.

34 Lisa Schirch, Ritual and Symbol in Peacebuilding (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2005), 148–149. Lederach and Lederach, ‘Blood and Bones’, 163–165. For Peru Theidon, ‘Justice’.

35 On restorative justice and reconciliation as relational conceptions of justice as opposed to a liberal individualist notion with its focus on individual offenders and their punishment see Jennifer Llewellyn and Daniel Philpott, ‘Restorative Justice and Reconciliation: Twin Frameworks for Peacebuilding’, in Restorative Justice, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding, eds. J.J. Llewellyn and D. Philpott (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 14–34 . They also make the point that the term restorative justice should not be taken literally – restoration encompasses an improvement in the quality of relationships so as to make them more sustainable in order to prevent relapse into conflict or violence.

36 Llewellyn and Philpott, ‘Restorative Justice’, 14.

37 See the discussion about the relationship between retributive and restorative justice in Wendy Lambourne, ‘Transformative Justice, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding’, in Transitional Justice Theories, eds. S. Buckley-Zistel et al. (Taylor and Francis, 2013), 19–39. She recommends “a more syncretic transitional justice mechanism that combines retributive and restorative elements” (21).

38 Boesenecker and Vinjamuri, ‘Lost in Translation’, 347.

39 Theidon, ‘Justice in Transition’.

40 Anthony Regan, ‘Why a Neutral Peace Monitoring Force? The Bougainville Conflict and the Peace process’, in Without a Gun. Australians’ Experiences Monitoring Peace in Bougainville, 1997–2001, eds. M. Wehner and D. Denoon (Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2001), 1–18, 15.

41 For examples see McDougall, Christianity’.

42 John Braithwaite et al., Pillars and Shadows. Statebuilding as Peacebuilding in Solomon Islands (Canberra: ANU e Press, 2010), 82. - There are some women chiefs, particularly in the matrilineal communities of Guadalcanal and Isabel provinces, and women at times are engaged (mostly invisibly) in kastom dispute resolution; Matthew Allen et al. Justice Delivered Locally. Systems, Challenges, and Innovations in Solomon Islands (Washington DC: The World Bank, 2013), 41–43.

43 Renee Jeffery, ‘Enduring Tensions: Transitional Justice in the Solomon Islands’, The Pacific Review 26, no. 2 (2013), 153–175 (particularly 164–166); John Maebuta and Rebecca Spence, Attempts at Building Peace in the Solomon Islands: Disconnected Layers. Reflecting on Peace Practice Project Cumulative Impact Case Study. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, 2009, 23–27.

44 The TRC was established under the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 2008. It was publicly launched to great fanfare by Archbishop Desmond Tutu from South Africa in April 2009, but only commenced operations in 2010. It presented its final report to the Prime Minister in February 2012. This report was unofficially released electronically in April 2013 by the report's editor, Bishop Terry Brown, who had become frustrated by the government's inaction regarding publication. - On the debate about the TRC see Braithwaite et al., Pillars, 86–91: Jeffery, ‘Enduring Tensions’, 168–171. For a critical assessment see Louise Vella, Translating Transitional Justice: The Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission (SSGM Discussion Paper 2014/2. Canberra: Australian National University, 2014); Holly L. Guthrey ‘Local Norms and Truth Telling: Examining Experienced Incompatibilities within Truth Commissions of Solomon Islands and Timor Leste’, The Contemporary Pacific 28, no.1 (2016), 1–29; Holly L. Guthrey, Victim Healing and Truth Commissions. Transforming Pain Through Voice in Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste (New York and London: Springer, 2015), and the contributions in Jeffery, Transitional Justice.

45 Jeffery, ‘Enduring Tensions’.

46 “Ironically, as the human rights discourse has largely been promoted by foreigners through the delivery of foreign aid, it has come to be regarded by many Solomon Islanders as a form of neocolonialism that threatens to undermine cultural values and norms.” Claire Cronin, ‘Subjectivities of Suffering: Human Rights in the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission’, in Transitional Justice in Practice: Conflict, Justice and Reconciliation in the Solomon Islands, ed. R. Jeffery (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 37–62, 50.

47 Vella, Justice, 1.

48 Cronin, Subjectivities, 54.

49 Vella, Justice, 10. “Sexual violence, or other human rights violations such as killings, torture and ill-treatment, (…), were not topics that could be discussed easily, if at all” (ibid., 11). Asking direct questions on such sensitive issues in a Solomon context usually leads nowhere.

50 Guthrie, ‘Local Norms’, 2.

51 Vella, Justice, 11.

52 Guthrey, ‘Local Norms’, 10: see also Guthrey, ‘Victim Healing’, 163; Vella, Justice, 13. Lambourne, ‘Transformative Justice’, makes the point that it is “critical to analyse how language and culture affect the interpretations and expectations of local populations and governments in the negotiation and implementation of transitional justice mechanisms” (34).

53 Louise Vella, ‘What Will You Do With Our Stories? Truth and Reconciliation in the Solomon Islands’, International Journal of Conflict and Violence 8, no. 1 (2014), 91–103; Holly L. Guthrey and Karen Brouneus, ‘Peering into the “Black Box” of TRC Success: Exploring Local Perceptions of Reconciliation in the Solomon Islands TRC’, in Jeffery, Transitional Justice, 85–111. Locals criticised the “disconnection between the concept of reconciliation used by the SI TRC and traditional notions of reconciliation based on Solomon Islands kastom” (105).

54 Vella, Justice, 1.

55 The BPA states in clause 341 (d) that “the arrangements for pardon and amnesty are intended to reduce tensions and divisions that could continue to flow from the conflict” (Bougainville Peace Agreement (30 August 2001), in: A. Carl, and L Garasu eds. Weaving Consensus, 67–85.

56 Joanne Wallis, Constitution Making During State Building (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 294.

57 Demands for compensation have at times turned into a lucrative business for some, and this has contributed to the discrediting of kastom reconciliation. This “corruption of kastom” was taken to extreme levels in the early stages of peacebuilding in the Solomon Islands, where “unscrupulous politicians co-opted kastom and customary practices including compensation for their own purposes” (Joanna R. Quinn, ‘Kastom in Dispute Resolution: Transitional Justice and Customary Law in the Solomon Islands’, in R. Jeffery, Transitional Justice, 63–84, 80). See at length Jon Fraenkel, The Manipulation of Custom: From Uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Island (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2004); “a government compensation culture has evolved as a shallow and quick fix” (Braithwaite et al., Pillars, 148).

58 Braithwaite et al., Pillars, 148.

59 UNDP, Peace and Development Analysis. Findings and Emerging Priorities. Port Moresby: United Nations Development Programme Papua New Guinea Country Office, 2014), 12.

60 Bloomfield discusses the tension between bottom-up interpersonal reconciliation and top-down political reconciliation. David Bloomfield, On Good Terms. Clarifying Reconciliation. Berghof Report No. 14. (Berlin: Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, 2006), 27–28.

61 Boege, ‘Traditional Approaches’.

62 Kylie McKenna, Corporate Social Responsibility and Natural Resource Conflict (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), 193.

63 Kylie McKenna, ‘Mining and Reconciliation: Negotiating the Future of the Panguna Mine in Bougainville’, SSGM In Brief 2015/35.

64 Joanne Wallis, Renee Jeffery and Lia Kent, ‘Political reconciliation in Timor Leste, Solomon Islands and Bougainville: the dark side of hybridity’, Australian Journal of International Affairs 70, no. 2 (2016), 159–178, 174.

65 Louise Vella, Translating Transitional Justice: The Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission. SSGM Discussion Paper 2014/2 (Canberra: Australian National University, 2014). This is similar to East Timor, see Lia Kent ‘Engaging with ‘The Everyday’: Towards a more dynamic conception of hybrid transitional justice’, in Hybridity on the ground in peacebuilding and development. Critical conversations, eds. Joanne Wallis et al. (Canberra: ANU Press, 2018), 145–161, 157–158. On the “perceived incompatibility between cultural norms and publicly airing sensitive stories” (Guthrey, ‘Victim Healing’, 5) see Guthrie, ‘Victim Healing’, 161-162.

66 Guthrey, ‘Local Norms’, 13: “ … interviewees from Solomon Islands spoke about their sense that issues of sexual violence should not be discussed in mixed company, and thus some aspects of the TRC's work were perceived to be incongruent with local norms”. “ In Solomon Islands, strong cultural taboos limit women's ability to discuss rape or sexual experiences. Doing so would contravene cultural practices and risk further violence, shame or other repercussions” (Vella, ‘”What will you do with our stories’ 99).

67 Guthrey and Brouneus, ‘Peering into the ‘Black Box’’, 100–103. They found strong criticism of the TRC as it was perceived as a foreign concept going against kastom, particularly ignoring the dangers of public story-telling – if people told their stories publicly “the old wounds opened up by their stories will reignite anger and spur violent revenge” (103).

68 Most communities in Bougainville or on Guadalcanal (the main island of Solomon Islands), for example, are matrilineal, with a relatively strong position of women in the customary social context. Women were highly influential actors in peacebuilding in Bougainville and Solomon Islands.

69 For a critique of ‘ethnojustice’ (as well as transitional justice), including customary reconciliation, see Adam Branch, ‘The Violence of Peace: Ethnojustice in Northern Uganda’ Development and Change 45, no. 3 (2014), 608–630 who argues that this type of justice consolidates “a patriarchal, gerontocratic order” (616) and “empowers older men at the expense of youth and women” (619).

70 Baines, ‘Spirits’, 430.

71 Baines, ‘Spirits’, 415.

72 Marita Eastmond, ‘Introduction: Reconciliation, Reconstruction, and Everyday Life in War-torn Societies’, Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 57 (2010), 3–16. 5, also Sally Engle Merry, Human Rights and Gender Violence (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 226, who criticizes that “those promoting universal standards tend to see local context as irrelevant or even a hindrance”.

73 Guthrey, ‘Local Norms’, 14.

74 Merry, ‘Human Rights’, 226.

75 Schirch, Ritual, 151.

76 Llewellyn and Philpott, Restorative Justice.

77 On the circular character of reconciliations see Lederach and Lederach, ‘Blood and Bones’.

78 Eastmond, ‘Introduction’, points to the “gap between the aspirations of transitional justice and the experiences and needs of local communities” (6) and reminds us that the everyday problems of people in post-conflict communities might be more urgent than issues of transitional justice.

79 I. W. Zartman, ‘Conclusions: Changes in the New Order and the Place for the Old’, in Traditional Cures for Modern Conflicts. African Conflict “Medicine”, ed. I.W. Zartman (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner, 2000): 219–230, 222.

80 Lambourne, Transformative Justice, 29–31.

81 On ‘forgetting’ and silence as coping mechanisms, particularly for women, see Guthrie, ‘Victim Healing’ (158-159), Vella, Justice, 10–11; on the significance of silence in peacebuilding Tarja Vaeyrynen ‘Silence in Western Models of Conflict Resolution’ in Mediating across difference. Oceanic and Asian approaches to conflict resolution, eds. M. Brigg and R. Bleiker (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press), 38–56. Her findings resonate well with Melanesian experiences as she posits that “silence forms invisible relational and interactive links and bonds in communities among people who have experienced the trauma of violence. Silence can create networks of trust, care and communal solidarity for those who have become isolated during conflict. By binding communities together silence can produce a countermemory vis-à-vis official narratives. It can normalise everyday life after violence” (50). In a Melanesian context, ‘truth-telling’ does not necessarily have the healing and liberating effects that proponents of transitional justice, coming from a Western cultural background, take for granted, and “silence does not just indicate the impossibility to speak or the impossibility to encounter the unspeakable, but it can generate a sense of community” (ibid., 51). Braithwaite goes even a step further: he cites cases from Indonesia where ‘non-truth’ (lying) was integral to and conducive to reconciliation (John Braithwaite, ‘Traditional Justice’ in Restorative Justice, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding, eds. Jennifer J. Llewellyn and Daniel Philpott (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

82 Hutchinson and Bleiker, ‘Emotional Reconciliation’, 396.

83 Braithwaite, ‘Traditional Justice’, makes this point with regard to tensions between restorative and traditional justice; it is even more valid with regard to reconciliation and transitional justice. On the importance of such intermediaries also Merry, Human Rights, 229.

84 Boesenacker and Vinjamuri, ‘Lost in Translation’, 364.

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