Beyond Legal Justice: Some Personal Reflections on People’s Tribunals, Listening and Responsibility

Abstract

This article explores aspects of the critique of law performed by people’s tribunals, as well as their (re)imaginings of justice, based primarily on the author’s experience of two women’s tribunals, held in Phnom Penh and Sarajevo. She reflects on the politics of listening engendered by people’s tribunals and the more capacious vi-sions of responsibility and justice they offer, both within and beyond the law.