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22. An Unsustainable Price: The Opportunity Costs of Transitional Justice

Author : Helen Ware

Published in: Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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For campaigners from Pope John Paul II to Angelina Jolie, and especially for those from legal backgrounds, it is axiomatic that there can be ‘No Peace without Justice’. It is, of course, possible to define peace in such a way that this becomes a simple truism. But what if peace is defined much more basically as the prolonged absence of physical warfare within a country and the cessation of killing? This chapter proposes the argument that there is, indeed, peace without justice across the world and that economic justice should be given higher priority than forensic justice. The poor know that the world is an unjust place and, if given a chance to voice their choices, put food before truth or retribution.

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Title: An Unsustainable Price: The Opportunity Costs of Transitional Justice
Author: Helen Ware
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-62315-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-62316-6

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62316-6_22

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