This article aims to explore the impact that non-judicial transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms have on victim agency by looking at the work of the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) for the Bangsamoro peace process in Mindanao, the Philippines. Using data from the TJRC’s reports, especially from its 2017 Listening Process Report, as well as interviews with members of the Commission, it examines the TJRC’s use of the Dealing with the Past (DwP) Framework and its Listening Process (LP) – an ad hoc, non-judicial consultation process tasked to study the root causes of the conflict in the region. Through a “complex political victim” lens, this article argues, first, that the TJRC de-essentialized the victim-perpetrator dichotomy through its DwP framework, and second, that narratives of victim neglect, exclusion, and reluctance articulated in the LP reveal various dimensions of the complex political victim in the Bangsamoro conflict.
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This article aims to explore the impact that non-judicial transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms have on victim agency by looking at the work of the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) for the Bangsamoro peace process in Mindanao, the Philippines. Using data from the TJRC’s reports, especially from its 2017 Listening Process Report, as well as interviews with members of the Commission, it examines the TJRC’s use of the Dealing with the Past (DwP) Framework and its Listening Process (LP) – an ad hoc, non-judicial consultation process tasked to study the root causes of the conflict in the region. Through a “complex political victim” lens, this article argues, first, that the TJRC de-essentialized the victim-perpetrator dichotomy through its DwP framework, and second, that narratives of victim neglect, exclusion, and reluctance articulated in the LP reveal various dimensions of the complex political victim in the Bangsamoro conflict.
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