Victim Participation as Labor

Victim Participation as Labor

From Justice Visions by Human Rights Centre - UGent

December 4, 2024 · 33 min

About this episode

This episode discusses the labor involved in victim participation in transitional justice processes and its implications.

In this new episode we zoom in on an oft-overlooked dimension of victim participation in formal transitional justice processes, namely the labor that victims invest in justice processes. In a conversation with professor Leila Ulrich , we explore the intricate relationship between the ICC’s engagement with victims and the global capitalist systems in which the court operates. The dynamics of under-valorization of victims time-investment, the offloading of care work to local and gendered practitioners, and the invisibilization of victims’ contributions to formal justice processes, characterize many international justice processes, Leila argues. Therefore, it is crucial to acknowledge and make this work politically visible as labor. Foregrounding the knowledge, resources, and time people dedicate allows us to acknowledge their contributions and better understand the depth of their involvement. "[T]here is a lot of tension between those who work and those who don't work in the same way that there's a lot of tension between those who are recognised as victims and those who are not. So there's a lot of complexities and paradoxes involved in how victim participation functions." In this…

People in this episode

Hosts: Tine Destrooper, Kim Baudewijns

Guest: Leila Ulrich

Topics covered

  • victim participation
  • transitional justice
  • labor
  • international justice

Keywords

  • ICC
  • global capitalism
  • care work
  • victim contributions

Mentioned in this episode

Places: the Democratic Republic of Congo

More episodes of Justice Visions

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Justice Visions podcast page.