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Transitional Justice and Ecological Jurisprudence in the Midst of an Ever-Changing Climate

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Abstract

What lessons can be learned from the field of transitional justice in regard to the current state of ongoing environmental changes? Reciprocally, what can the new field of ecological jurisprudence offer to the traditional concerns of transitional justice? Scientists are overwhelmingly unanimous in asserting that anthropogenic activities are contributing to a rate of environmental changes unprecedented in recorded history, transporting all human societies into an era of ongoing environmental transition. Such a state of permanent environmental change might require us to rethink our concepts of conflict—by re-discussing the idea of humans “at war with nature” as triggered by Cartesian philosophy—of society—by including within the idea of societies nonhuman agents and entities as well as human ones—and of justice—by extending beyond an anthropocentric view of justice toward an ecocentric one. The writings and theories of authors such as Thomas Berry (Earth Jurisprudence) and Cormac Cullinan (Wild Law) might indeed pose a creative challenge to traditional ideas of what constitutes transitional justice. As a result, it could be argued that radical jurisprudential changes, such as granting nature legal subjectivity in the Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008, may represent effective example of new adaptive strategies to ensure future forms of social stability in the midst of an ongoing state of environmental change.

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Notes

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    See, among others, Ruti Teitel, Transitional Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). Scarlett retraces the origin of transitional justice from its roots in the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials, which set “an important precedent by holding accountable those responsible for crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide,” through “the first significant attempt at reconciliation through transitional justice since World War II” in 1985 in Argentina (that is, the trials of former leaders following a decade-long military regime), and finally to the ratification of the International Criminal Court in 2002: Michael H Scarlett, “Imagining a World beyond Genocide: Teaching about Transitional Justice,” The Social Studies 100(4) (2009): 169. Conversely, both Arthur and Turner suggest that, notwithstanding retrospective claims made about the origin of the term, the term itself was not applied until the 1990s. Paige Arthur, “How ‘transitions’ reshaped human rights: A conceptual history of transitional justice,” Human Rights Quarterly 31 (2009): 321; Catherine Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice,” Law Critique 24 (2013): 193.

  2. 2.

    Jon Elster, Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

  3. 3.

    Susan Harris Rimmer, “Sexing the Subject of Transitional Justice,” The Australian Feminist Law Journal 32 (2010) 123, 125.

  4. 4.

    Marek M Kaminski, Monika Nalepa and Barry O’Neill, “Normative and Strategic Aspects of Transitional Justice,” The Journal of Conflict Resolution 50(3) (2006): 295, 295.

  5. 5.

    Catherine Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice,” 197.

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    Christine Bell, “Transitional justice, interdisciplinarity and the state of the ‘field’ or ‘non field’.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 3 (2009): 5, 8.

  7. 7.

    Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice”, 197.

  8. 8.

    Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice”, 197.

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    Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice”, 198.

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    Laurel E Fletcher, Harvey M Weinstein and Jamie Rowen, “Context, Timing and the Dynamics of Transitional Justice: A Historical Perspective,” Human Rights Quarterly 31 (2009): 163, 164.

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    Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice,” 199.

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    Padraig McAuliffe, “Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law: The Perfect Couple or Awkward Bedfellows?,” Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 2 (2010): 127, 127.

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    Harris Rimmer, “Sexing the Subject of Transitional Justice,” 126-128.

  14. 14.

    Leslie Vinjamuri and Jack Snyder, “Advocacy and Scholarship in the Study of International War Crime Tribunals and Transitional Justice,” Annual Review of Political Science 7 (2004): 345.

  15. 15.

    Harris Rimmer, “Sexing the Subject of Transitional Justice,” 130.

  16. 16.

    Scarlett, “Imagining a World beyond Genocide,” 171.

  17. 17.

    McAuliffe, “Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law,” 129.

  18. 18.

    McAuliffe, “Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law,” 128.

  19. 19.

    See, among others, Carsten Stahn, “The Geometry of Transitional Justice: Choices of Institutional Design,” Leiden Journal of International Law 18 (2005): 425.

  20. 20.

    Fletcher, Weinstein and Rowen, “Context, Timing and the Dynamics of Transitional Justice,” 170.

  21. 21.

    Fletcher, Weinstein and Rowen, “Context, Timing and the Dynamics of Transitional Justice,” 218.

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    See, for example, Jacques Deridda, “Force of Law: The mythical foundation of authority,” in Deconstruction and the possibility of justice, ed. Drucilla Cornell (New York: Routledge, 1992); Margaret Davies, Asking the Law Question (Pyrmont, Lawbook Co., 3rd ed, 2008); Gary Minda, Postmodern Legal Movements. Law and Jurisprudence at Century’s End (New York: New York University Press, 1995); Costas Douzinas and Adam Geary, Critical Jurisprudence. The Political Philosophy of Justice (Portland: Hart, 2005).

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    Bronwyn Anne Leebaw, “The Irreconcilable Goals of Transitional Justice,” Human Rights Quarterly 30 (2008) 95, 95.

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    Fletcher et al, “Context, Timing and the Dynamics of Transitional Justice,” 166-167.

  25. 25.

    Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice”, 193.

  26. 26.

    Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice”, 197.

  27. 27.

    Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice,” 197.

  28. 28.

    Contra, see Deridda’s famous argument that justice can only exist in the aporia of law.

  29. 29.

    Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice,” 197.

  30. 30.

    Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice,” 205.

  31. 31.

    Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice,” 205.

  32. 32.

    Harris Rimmer, “Sexing the Subject of Transitional Justice,” 131.

  33. 33.

    Turner, “Deconstructing Transitional Justice,” 208.

  34. 34.

    Harris Rimmer, “Sexing the Subject of Transitional Justice,” 123.

  35. 35.

    Chief Judge Joe Williams, “Confessions of a Native Judge: Reflections on the Role of Transitional Justice in the Transformation of Indigeneity,” Lad, Rights Laws: Issues of Native Title 3(14) (2008): 1, 4.

  36. 36.

    Kaminski, Nalepa and O’Neill, “Normative and Strategic Aspects of Transitional Justice,” 298.

  37. 37.

    See, for example, Margaret Davies, Asking the Law Question.

  38. 38.

    See Cormac Cullinan, Wild Law. A Manifesto for Earth Justice (Devon: Green Books, first published 2002, 2nd ed, 2011).

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  40. 40.

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  41. 41.

    See, for example, Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches (New York, Vintage, 1989); Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel (New York: Vintage, 1998); Spencer Wells, Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization (New York: Random House, 2010).

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    Dyer, Climate Wars.

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    “IPCC Report,” last modified November 20, 2013, http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/#.Uqjfa5GZZg0.

  44. 44.

    Literature collected from both peer-reviewed and unreviewed sources by an international and interdisciplinary team of hundreds of scientists and specialists is placed under extreme scrutiny as a result of multiple rounds of reviews and comments by a plurality of sources. The last report has focused on three main areas of examination: the physical science of climate change (Working Groups I), impacts, vulnerabilities, and adaptation (Working Group II) and mitigation option scenarios (Working Group III). The reports by Working Groups 2 and 3, as well as a final synthesis report, are to be published in 2014.

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    Roger Jones and Celeste Young, “Explainer: How to read an IPCC report,” last modified September 25, 2013, http://theconversation.com/explainer-how-to-read-an-ipcc-report-18520.

  46. 46.

    Jones and Young, “How to read an IPCC report,” last modified September 25, 2013, http://theconversation.com/explainer-how-to-read-an-ipcc-report-18520.

  47. 47.

    Current Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot and former Prime Minister John Howard’s positions on climate change are particularly blatant cases of how individual opinions not informed by scientific expertise should not be determining (and yet do determine) political decisions. Although entitled, as everyone else, to their individual opinions, political leaders are—or at least ought to be—in a more delicate position whereby any public statement released by them should rely on valid evidence (in this case on valid scientific evidence) rather than on their personal (and in this case, essentially uninformed, since neither Prime Minister is a scientist) opinions.

  48. 48.

    Nicholas Stern, “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review,” last modified September 25, 2013, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/sternreview_index.htm.

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  50. 50.

    Nicola Durrant, “The science and economics of climate change: an update on the predictions,” National Environmental Law Review (4) Summer 2006: 39, 40.

  51. 51.

    This higher threshold has been described as increasingly likely by the Fifth IPCC report.

  52. 52.

    Jane McAdam, “Climate change ‘refugees’ and international law,” Bar News: Journal of the NSW Bar Association (Winter 2008): 27. See also Vikram Kolmannskog, “Climate change, human mobility, and protection: initial evidence from Africa,” Refugee Survey Quarterly 29(3) (2010): 103; Paul de Guchteneire, Antoine Pecoud and Etienne Piguet, “Migration and climate change: an overview,” Refugee Survey Quarterly 30(3) (2011): 1; Cara Nine, “Ecological refugee states: do they have a right to a new territory?” Res Publica 19(1) (2010): 7; Heather Anderson, Tess Burton, David Hodgkinson and Lucy Young, “‘The hour when the ship comes in’: a convention for persons displaced by climate change,” Monash University Law Review 36(1) 2010: 69.

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    Mostafa Mahmud Naser and Tanzim Afroz, “Human rights implications of climate change induced displacement,” Bond Law Review 21(3) (2009): 139, 143.

  54. 54.

    Naser and Afroz, “Human rights implications of climate change induced displacement,” 141. See also John Von Doussa, “Human rights and climate change: a tragedy in the making,” National Environmental Law Review (1) (2009): 37.

  55. 55.

    Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings (New York: Random House, 1977).

  56. 56.

    Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Penguin: 2005).

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    Joseph A Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

  58. 58.

    “Complexity,” Tainter writes, “is generally understood to refer to such things as the size of a society, the number and distinctiveness of its parts, the variety of specialized roles that it incorporates, the number of distinct social personalities present and the variety of mechanisms for organizing these into a coherent, functioning whole. Augmenting any of these dimensions increases the complexity of a society.” It is interesting to note that complexity, in Tainter’s term, is a purely quantitative definition, deprived of any qualitative judgment. Furthermore, social complexity is strictly related to the size of a society, in Tainter’s analysis. Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies, 23.

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    Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies, 91.

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    John M Greer, “How Civilisations Fall: A Theory of Catabolic Collapse,” last modified November 15, 2013, http://www.ecoshock.org/transcripts/greer_on_collapse.pdf.

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    Private conversation with the author. See also, Heidi Avolio and Aidan Ricketts, “Corporate liability for manslaughter : the need for further reform” Southern Cross University Law Review 13 (2010): 57.

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    See, for example, Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998).

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    Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows, Limits to Growth. The 30-year Update (White River Junction: Chelsea Green, 2004): i.

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    An Inconvenient Truth (Directed by Davis Guggenheim, Lawrence Bender Prod, 2006).

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    See, for example, Jack J Sepkoski and Daviv M Raup, “Mass extinctions in the marine fossil record,” Science 215(4539) (1982): 1501.

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    See also Roberto Vacca, The Coming Dark Age (New York: Doubleday, 1973).

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    J G Ballard, The Drowned World (New York: Doubleday, 1962).

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    Harry Harrison, Make Room, Make Room (New York: Doubleday, 1966). Famously transformed into a 1970’s motion picture under the title Soylent Green (Directed by Richard Fleischer, MGM, 1973).

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    John Christopher, The Death of Grass (London: Michael Joseph, 1956).

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    Mad Max (Directed by George Miller, Kennedy Miller Prod, 1979) and related sequels.

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    The Walking Dead (Created by Frank Darabont, AMC, 2010).

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    See Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception, trans. Kevin Attell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). See also Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwab (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, first published 1922, 2006).

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    See Dyer, Climate Wars.

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    See, for example, Jared Diamond, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (New York: Viking, 2012).

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    See Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (New York: Back Bay Books, 1996); Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (New York: Viking, 2011). “Prepping” for a state of unchecked and extended social violence is thus not only rather anti-economical, given its relatively low likelihood and, or, duration, but also it perpetrates the same hegemonic rhetoric of social disruption that it purportedly prepares against.

  77. 77.

    See Bruno Tertrais, “The climate wars myth,” Washington Quarterly 34(3) (2011): 17.

  78. 78.

    Resources available per capita are a function of available resources, population numbers, and technological capacity of using such resources, taking into account the fact that some resources are renewable (that is, they replenish faster than the rate of their consumption) while others are not (either because they are inherently finite or because they replenish at a slower rate than their consumption).

  79. 79.

    It may be useful to add that during the transition to these “simpler” structures, such structures may be perceived as less “stable” by individual members of the declining society, thus generating a sense of social insecurity.

  80. 80.

    Indeed, a decline of resources per capita is a direct mathematical function of finite resources and increasing population. Indeed, such a decline could be countered by a faster rate of technological innovation. However, the very assumptions underpinning traditional economic models suggest otherwise. It appears that the exponentially faster rate of technological ingenuity since the Neolithic has indeed conspired to increase, rather than reduce, both population numbers and per capita consumptions. In fact, the economy of entire countries is currently measured by a growth model focused on the constant increase of consumption (and expressed as gross domestic product or GDP). Against traditional economic model of “growth,” see, for example, Herman E Daly, Steady-State Economics (Washington: Island Press, 2nd ed, 1991); Richard Heinberg, The end of growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality (Gabriola Island: New Society Press, 2011).

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    See Curt Stager, Deep Future: The next 100,000 years of life on Earth (Melbourne: Scribe, 2011). On a more hopeful note, the author also suggests that human activity not only has caused the current state of environmental uncertainty, but also it has the potential of providing a degree of environmental homeostasis capable of maintaining a relative stable range of conditions required for human survival (for example, by mitigating the effect of ice age cycles).

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    Christopher Stone, Should Trees Have Standing? (New York: Oxford University Press, first published 1972, 3rd ed, 2010).

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    Cormac Cullinan, “A History of Wild Law” in Exploring Wild Law, ed. Peter Burdon (Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2011).

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  88. 88.

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    Nicole Graham, Lawscape (New York: Routledge, 2011).

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    See “Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund,” last modified November 29, 2013, http://www.celdf.org.

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    Furthermore, it is important to note that the successful introduction of constitutional rights of nature provisions in Ecuador is largely owed to the ongoing input of local Indigenous groups. See Kenneth J Mijeski and Scott H Beck, Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement (Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2011).

  94. 94.

    Ecuadorian Constitution, Title II, Chapter Seven, Articles 71–74. Article 71 begins by stating that “Nature, or Pacha Mama, where life is reproduced and occurs, has the right to integral respect for its existence and for the maintenance and regeneration of its life cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary process.” An English translation of the Ecuadorian Constitution can be found at http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/Ecuador/english08.html. The original version can be accessed at http://www.presidencia.gob.ec.

  95. 95.

    Ecuadorian Constitution, Article 14.

  96. 96.

    Provincial Court of Justice of Loja, Ecuador, sentence No. 11121-2011-0010, March 30, 2011.

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    Evo Morales Ayma, Maude Barlow, Vandana Shiva, and Shannon Biggs, The Rights of Nature: The Case for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth (San Francisco: Council of Canadians, Fundación Pachamama and Global Exchange, 2011).

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    Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra, last accessed November 30, 2013, http://bolivia.infoleyes.com/shownorm.php?id=2689.

  99. 99.

    Alison Fairbrother, “New Zealand’s Whanganui River Gains a Legal Voice,” last modified January 8, 2013, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/new-zealand-whanganui-river_n_1894893.html.

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    Kate Soper, What is Nature? (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995).

  101. 101.

    Ramsay Taum, “A Hawaiian Indigenous voice” (paper presented at the Keeping the Fire conference, Second Australian Conference on Wild Law and Earth Jurisprudence, Wollongong, July 2010).

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    Cullinan, Wild Law, 88-89.

  103. 103.

    See Pelizzon, “Earth Laws, Rights of Nature and Legal Pluralism.”

  104. 104.

    See Anne Schillmoller and Alessandro Pelizzon, “Mapping the Terrain of Earth Jurisprudence: Landscape, Thresholds and Horizons,” Environmental and Earth Law Journal 3(1) (2013): 1.

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    Peter Burdon, “The Great Jurisprudence” in Exploring Wild Law. The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence, ed. Peter Burdon (Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2011).

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Pelizzon, A. (2015). Transitional Justice and Ecological Jurisprudence in the Midst of an Ever-Changing Climate. In: Szablewska, N., Bachmann, SD. (eds) Current Issues in Transitional Justice. Springer Series in Transitional Justice, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09390-1_13

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