{"id":128970,"date":"2019-03-18T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=128970"},"modified":"2019-03-05T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T15:33:42","slug":"what-is-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/03\/what-is-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Justice?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is justice to a woman who\u2019s children were slaughtered just before she was raped?
\nWhat is justice to a bride who\u2019s last caress was the last she will ever know?
\nWhat is justice to a woman who will never trust a man again?
\nWhat is justice to an orphan in a refugee camp?
\nWhat is justice to lawyers who still won\u2019t call it Genocide?
\nJustice is the spirit of the law.
\nWithout justice law is dead, like an empty skull.
\nWithout justice there can be no reconciliation.
\nWithout justice love cannot re-weave the social fabric.
\nWithout justice hope dies.
\nWithout justice death conquers life.
\nJustice establishes the truth.
\nJustice restores dignity to the victim.
\nJustice recognizes a widow\u2019s grief.
\nJustice is digging up the bones and giving them proper burial.
\nJustice is telling the stories of suffering to someone who really listens.
\nJustice is confession that your country was responsible.
\nJustice is always having to say you\u2019re sorry.
\nJustice is the struggle to understand why people do such evil.
\nJustice affirms that the rule of law is stronger than rule by force.
\nJustice says murderers cannot get away with Genocide.
\nJustice is the antidote to abandonment.
\nJustice is reconnection with the human race.
\nJustice restores social order and rebalances the moral universe.
\nJustice is God\u2019s force socially expressed.
\nLove is God\u2019s force personally expressed.
\nWith justice and love hope may return.
\nAnd hope is the assurance that life will triumph over death.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Gregory H. Stanton is the President of Genocide Watch.\u00a0 He is the Research Professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution of George Mason University.\u00a0Dr. Stanton founded Genocide Watch in 1999, was the founder (1981) and director of the Cambodian Genocide Project, and is the founder (1999) and Chair of the International Alliance to End Genocide, the world\u2019s first anti-genocide coalition. From 2007\u20132009, he was the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Dr. Stanton served in the State Department (1992-1999), where he drafted the United Nations Security Council resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Burundi Commission of Inquiry, and the Central African Arms Flow Commission. He also drafted the U.N. Peacekeeping Operations resolutions that helped bring about an end to the Mozambique civil war. In 1994, Stanton won the American Foreign Service Association\u2019s prestigious W. Averell Harriman award for \u201cextraordinary contributions to the practice of diplomacy exemplifying intellectual courage,\u201d based on his dissent from U.S. policy on the Rwandan genocide. He wrote the State Department options paper on ways to bring the Khmer Rouge to justice in Cambodia. More\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is justice to a woman who\u2019s children were slaughtered just before she was raped? What is justice to a bride who\u2019s last caress was the last she will ever know? What is justice to a woman who will never trust a man again? What is justice to an orphan in a refugee camp? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":128971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}