Transitional Justice and Political Economies of Survival in Post-conflict Northern Uganda

摘要

This article explores the interplay between transitional justice and everyday' political economies of survival in post-conflict Acholiland, northern Uganda. It advances two main arguments. First, that transitional justice as part and parcel of conventional liberal peacebuilding packages promotes a repertoire of normatively driven policies that have little bearing on lived realities of social accountability in post-conflict settings. Second, that in transcending the epistemological and ontological boundaries of transitional justice and using concepts developed in the critical peacebuilding literature the everyday' and hybridity' a nuanced understanding of this dissonance emerges. Based on extensive fieldwork in Acholiland in the period 2012-14, using a range of qualitative research methods, the author examines the means through which people negotiate social and moral order in the context of post-conflict life and analyses the tensions between these forms of everyday' activity and current transitional justice policy and programming in the region.