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36 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 190 (2018)
How Power Dynamics Influence the North-South Gap in Transitional Justice

handle is hein.journals/berkjintlw36 and id is 199 raw text is: How Power Dynamics Influence the North- South Gap in Transitional Justice Introductory Essay by Laurel E. Fletcher and Harvey M. Weinstein INTRODUCTION ......... 191 I. WORKSHOP FORMAT .......................................... 194 II. WHAT DID WE LEARN? .............................. ..... 194 A. Dynamics of Colonialism in Transitional Justice Interventions ............................... ..... 195 1. Collective Memory and Legacies of Colonialism.......... 197 2. Collective Amnesia and International Transitional Justice Interventions ........................ ......... 198 B. Dynamics of the Legalization of Transitional Justice.......... 199 1. The Legal Framework of Transitional Justice and the Politics It Promotes ...................... ..... 200 2. The Politics of Social Justice as Transitional Justice ... 203 C. Dynamics of Research Extraction ............... ..... 205 1. North-Based Researchers, South-Based Sites............... 206 2. Extractive Pressures on North-Based Research............ 208 3. South-Based Researcher-Practitioner Dynamics.......... 210 D. Funding Dynamics ...................................... 211 1. Funding Top-Down Priorities .................... 211 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38QN5ZB61. * Laurel E Fletcher is Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Ifletcher@law.berkeley.edu; Harvey M Weinstein is Senior Research Fellow, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley and a retired Clinical Professor, School of Public Health, harveyw@berkeley.edu. The order of authors is alphabetical. The authors would like to thank the members of the Steering Committee for and the participants in the workshop giving rise to this publication, North-South Dialogue: Bridging the Gap in Transitional Justice, for dedicating their considerable energies and talents to this effort to think together about how to address current troubling dynamics in the field and for their valuable feedback. We also thank Mark Drumbl and the participants of the 2018 ISA conference for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this essay. We are grateful to Katrina Natale for her research support and to Olivia Layug Balbarin for preparing the transcript. Any remaining errors are our own. 190 Published by Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository, 2018

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