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Deconstruction is, according to Derrida (2002: 243), justice, infinitely deferred, always ‘to come’ (à-venir), the ‘experience of the impossible’ (2002: 244). Furthermore, ‘[j]ustice without force is powerless … force without justice is tyrannical’, whereby it is a challenge to ‘combine justice and force; and for this end make what is just strong, or what is strong just’ (Blaise Pascal cited in Derrida 2002: 238).
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Dhawan, N. (2012). Transitions to Justice. In: Buckley-Zistel, S., Stanley, R. (eds) Gender in Transitional Justice. Governance and Limited Statehood Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230348615_11
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