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Introduction: Addressing economic violence in times of transition / Dustin N. Sharp -- Liberal peacebuilding and transitional justice : what place for socioeconomic concerns? / Chandra Lekha Sriram -- The trilemma of promoting economic justice at war's end / Topher L. McDougal -- Economic violence in the practice of African Truth Commissions and beyond / Dustin N. Sharp -- Reparations and economic, social, and cultural rights / Naomi Roht-Arriaza -- Corruption, human rights, and activism : useful connections and their limits / Chris Albin-Lackey -- Transitional justice, development, and economic violence / Roger Duthie -- Reimagining transitional justice for an enduring peace : accounting for natural resources conflict / Sandra S. Nichols -- Financial complicity : the Brazilian dictatorship under the "macroscope" / Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Marcelo D. Torelly -- Land policy and transitional justice after armed conflicts / Daniel Fitzpatrick and Akiva Fishman -- Conclusions: From periphery to foreground / Dustin N. Sharp.

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 continues afterwards as a legacy of conflict, a greater focus on economic and social rights issues in the transitional justice context is critical. One might add that insofar as transitional justice is increasingly seen as an instrument of peacebuilding rather than a simple political transition, focus on economic violence as the crucial 'root cause' is key to preventing re-lapse into conflict. Recent increasing attention to economic issues by academics and truth commissions suggest this may be slowly changing, and that economic and social rights may represent the 'next frontier' of transitional justice concerns. There remain difficult questions that have yet to be worked out at the level of theory, policy, and practice. Further scholarship in this regard is both timely, and necessary. This volume therefore presents an opportunity to fill an important gap. The project will bring together new papers by recognized and emerging scholars and policy experts in the field.--Provided by publisher.