Roger & Stephany Joslin Prof @UIllinoisLaw | Acting Exec Director @IGIAtillinois | @HRIatIllinois-@MellonFdn Legal Humanities Fellow | Tweets mine
Jan 10, 2021 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
"Reconciliation" is the new buzz word in US political discourse right now.
We do need to reconcile. But reconciliation requires meaningful accountability for wrongdoing. It is not achieved by simply 'moving on.'
A thread on why 1/
Reconciliation is repairing damaged relationships (among citizens and between citizens and officials)
To pursue reconciliation you need to understand:
a)The ways relationships are damaged
b)What repaired relationships look like
c)How to address damage to facilitate repair 2/
Mar 13, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
If you are struggling to find a label for our current situation, here is one:
serious existential uncertainty.
I write about this idea in my book on transitional justice, but it is useful to help think about #CoronavirusPandemic .
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Serious existential uncertainty arises when it becomes profoundly unclear where a political community is heading. In TJ, it’s unclear whether war will end. With coronavirus, it's unclear just how bad a disaster & what duration we are in the cusp of/in the midst of. 2/
