Justice and Economic Violence in Transition

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 continuesafterwards as a legacy of conflict, a greater focus on economic and social rights issues inthe transitional justice context is critical. One might add that insofar as transitional justice isincreasingly seen as an instrument of peacebuilding rather than a simple political transition,focus on economic violence as the crucial "e;root cause"e; is key to preventing re-lapse intoconflict. Recent increasing attention to economic issues by academics and truth commissions suggestthis may be slowly changing, and that economic and social rights may represent the "e;nextfrontier"e; of transitional justice concerns. There remain difficult questions that have yet to beworked out at the level of theory, policy, and practice. Further scholarship in this regard isboth timely, and necessary. This volume therefore presents an opportunity to fill animportant gap. The project will bring together new papers by recognized and emergingscholars and policy experts in the field.