Chapter 11 confirms the findings of other studies that local populations prioritize economic needs and physical security in the aftermath of conflict and authoritarian rule, rather than the core components of transitional justice (truth, justice). This finding requires a recalibration of transitional justice interventions to increase the visibility and priority given to local, everyday concerns. The chapter’s main contribution is in providing a conceptual framework which allows these local priorities to be assessed and understood in a joined-up way by aligning everyday concerns with concepts such as the indivisibility of rights, restorative justice, and conflict transformation. A case study draws on the Everyday Peace Indicators project and its findings in Northern Uganda. The main argument is that a positive peace and a positive justice are organic and bottom-up in nature with economic and social rights at their core, and should be understood as everyday verbs given meaning through the lives and actions of those emerging from violent conflict.
Indivisibility as a Way of Life: Transformation in Micro-Processes of Peace in Northern Uganda
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