Addressing structural violence through US reconciliation commissions: The case study of Greensboro,NC and Detroit,MI |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK;2. School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK;3. Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK;4. Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies, University of Bath, UK;5. Department of History, University of Bristol, UK;1. Department of Geography, 673 Auditorium Road, Geography Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117, USA;2. Department of History, Morrill Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1036, USA;1. Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, CA 92110, USA;2. Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland;3. Institute for Economic Policy and Centre for Applied Economics (CSEA), Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Via Necchi n. 5, 20123 Milano, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Across the United States, communities encumbered by violence, economic injustice, legacies of oppression and continued social, economic, and political marginalization are increasingly turning toward truth and reconciliation commissions (TRC) to address and remedy persistent inequality. While modeled after the international truth movement, TRCs in the United States are often not state-sanctioned and characterized by fundamental differences that beg the question: How are peace and justice dialectically linked to, and flow from geographic specific understandings of violence? Drawing from the TRC experiences of Greensboro (NC) and Detroit (MI), this paper examines the way communities that were burdened with a history of violence are turning toward TRCs as viable vehicles for addressing violence and inequality in contemporary US society. This paper furthers our understanding of the geographic ruptures violence creates in communities and the often hidden realities that the legacy and memory of violence has for oppressed people in the United States. |
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