Hidden politics of power and governmentality in transitional justice and peacebuilding:The problem of ‘bringing the local back in’

This paper examines ‘the local’ in peacebuilding by examining how ‘local’ transitional justice projects can become spaces of power inequalities. The paper argues that focusing on how ‘the local’ contests or interacts with ‘the international’ in peacebuilding and post-conflict contexts obscures contestations and power relations amongst different local actors, and how inequalities and power asymmetries can be entrenched and reproduced through internationally funded local projects. The paper argues that externally funded projects aimed at emancipating ‘locals’ entrench inequalities and create local elites that become complicit in governing the conduct and participation of other less empowered ‘locals’. The paper thus proposes that specific local actors—often those in charge of externally funded peacebuilding projects—should also be conceptualised as governing agents: able to discipline and regulate other local actors’ voices and their agency, and thus (re)construct ideas about what ‘the local’ is, or is not

Characteristics of Adults in the Hepatitis B Research Network in North America Reflect Their Country of Origin and Hepatitis B Virus Genotype

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an important cause of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide; populations that migrate to the US and Canada might be disproportionately affected. The Hepatitis B Research Network (HBRN) is a cooperative network of investigators from the United States and Canada, created to facilitate clinical, therapeutic, and translational research in adults and children with hepatitis B. We describe the structure of the network and baseline characteristics of adults with hepatitis B enrolled in the network

Truth, Reconciliation and Settler Denial: Specifying the Canada-South Africa Analogy

Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is tasked with facing the hundred year history of Indian Residential Schools. The South African Truth and Reconciliation (SATRC) is frequently invoked in popular discourse and academic literature as an example in relation to the Canadian TRC, perhaps because this is one of the few TRCs worldwide that Canadians know. However, I argue that this loose analogizing is often more emotive than concise. While much indeed can be drawn from the South African experience, it is important to specify the Canada-South Africa analogy. In this paper, I do so by focusing in particular on the institutional approach to truth, and how this relates to issues of settler denial and intergenerational memory in both countries. By settler denial, I mean the refusal or inability of whites (in South Africa) or non-Aboriginals (in Canada) to acknowledge or accept responsibility for systemic violence. I use the term intergenerational memory to convey the challenge of guiding beneficiaries to understand injustice and violence not as a “thing of the past” but as an ongoing, lived relationship. Taking up criticisms that the South African TRC relied upon a poor conceptualization of truth and failed to engage apartheid in all its complexity, I examine the conceptual and political challenges and opportunities for truth, responsibility and reconciliation in Canada. I caution against over-enthusiastic analogizing of a South-African style truth and reconciliation for Canada\u27s residential schools

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