For Mayan women seeking redress for unthinkable harm, whose justice?

Reviews the book, Beyond Repair?: Mayan Women's Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm by Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes (2019). In this book, Crosby and Lykes “[trace] the struggles for redress by 54 Mayan women protagonists...all of whom survived sexual harm and many other violations perpetrated against them during the height of Guatemala’s 36-year armed conflict.” Drawing heavily on data from regional and national workshops employing feminist Participatory Action Research, Crosby and Lykes offer a carefully constructed account of Mayan women’s efforts to seek justice and redress—in the process probing the meaning of these terms themselves to the women. In doing so, their work examines some of the possibilities and limits of current transitional justice practices, and offers the beginning of a glimpse into how those who transitional justice mechanisms are intended to serve might design them differently if provided an opportunity. Psychologists and others working in transitional justice may benefit in a number of ways from reading Beyond Repair. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research