The modes and implications of strategic (non)communication in, and by, transitional justice and human rights institutions

Abstract

This panel brings together empirical and conceptual papers that identify and examine gaps in strategic communication within transitional justice and human rights practices. Drawing from a range of cases and methodological approaches, the papers explore how actors and transitional justice and human rights institutions interact with wider social and political contexts through strategic communicative, legal, and representational practices, including silence. Across institutional and group levels, the panel explores how transitional justice and human rights mechanisms communicate their work and unpacks the implications of modes of strategic communication. Together, these papers nuance our understandings of how strategic communicative and representational practices within and by formal institutional spaces both shape, and are shaped by, enduring legacies of violence and power.

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Strategic Communication and Stakeholder Engagement in Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace	View Paper Details
The Right to Life in War: Redefining the Relationship Between Human Rights Law and the Conduct of Warfare by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)	View Paper Details
Strategic Silence and Performative Demands: A Typology of Claimants in Postcolonial Reparations Politics	View Paper Details
How to Communicate the Past: The Colombian Truth Commission’s Communication Strategy	View Paper Details