Author profile: Yvonne Manzi
Reconciliation in Transitional and Post-conflict Societies: Healing or Impunity?
Reconciliation is more meaningful when viewed as a transformative process which favours a restorative notion of justice, rather than as merely another word for impunity.
Performative Violence: Conceptual and Strategic Implications
The causes and effects of performative violence are linked, and include intimidation, social and material control, social cohesion and communication, and structural violence.
Jean-Paul Sartre: Existential “Freedom” and the Political
Sartre’s concept of freedom should not be omitted from debates in political thought. His is a valuable ‘technical and philosophical’ concept rooted in questions of existence and being.
Habermas on Liberalism: Towards an Intersubjective Paradigm
The study of these rules is what Habermas calls universal pragmatics. If individuals want to come to an understanding, they must let go of conflictual and instrumental methods of action.
