RT Article
T1 Justice in Extractivism Related Socio-environmental Conflicts from a Decolonial and Restorative Lens: the Agua Zarca case in Honduras = La justicia en los conflictos socioambientales relacionados con el extractivismo desde una perspectiva descolonial y restaurativa : el caso Agua Zarca en Honduras
JF Revista de victimología
IS 17
SP 85
OP 110
A1 Talavera, Crisbel
A2 Pali, Brunilda
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1885093241
AB This article investigates the potential of the restorative justice approach to address socio-environmental conflicts resulting from extractivism by employing as a case study the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque River in Honduras. Based on interviews with victims from the affected Lenca community, environmental defenders, and local practitioners, this research shows that harms caused by extractivism are both multi-dimensional and multi-level. We argue that restorative justice represents a viable option for the Agua Zarca case because it offers a kind of justice that is in many ways close to what constitutes a meaningful justice for the Lenca people. However, due to the context of impunity in Honduras, meaningful justice also requires the prosecution of aggressors through the traditional judicial system in addition to structural changes that address colonial legacies such as historical injustices, systemic discrimination, and power asymmetries. Overall, this research shows the importance of a synergy of restorative justice with the decolonial theory that allows bottom-up strategies for restoring justice on an intra community as well as a structural level and implementing strategies that transform conflicts in Indigenous territories.
K1 Extractivism
K1 Restorative Justice
K1 socio-environmental conflicts
K1 decolonial theory
K1 Indigenous territories
DO 10.12827/RVJV.17.04