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Annika Björkdahl

Annika Björkdahl

Professor

Annika Björkdahl

Peacebuilding, Structural Violence and Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa

Author

  • Susan Forde
  • Stefanie Kappler
  • Annika Bjorkdahl

Summary, in English

Peacebuilding approaches have placed emphasis on the restoration of political relationships and symbolic notions of community reconciliation, paying limited attention to the material causes of violence. In South Africa, the historical structural economic violence has been maintained, and after the formal end of apartheid, a lack of equitable distribution of resources is ongoing. This article conceptually and empirically argues that distributive justice measures are a way of compensating those affected by structural economic violence and addressing structural inequalities. Spatial reparations, we argue, could support readjustment of the socio-economic causes and consequences of violence in conjunction with promoting social justice.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2021

Language

English

Pages

327-346

Publication/Series

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

Volume

15

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • distributive justice
  • Peacebuilding
  • South Africa
  • spatial reparations
  • structural violence

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1750-2977