The deconstruction and reproduction of mistrust : an exploratory study on the contested negotiation of pluralist justice systems in the Andean region

  • Over the last three decades, countries across the Andean region have moved toward legal recognition of indigenous justice systems. This turn toward legal pluralism, however, has been and continues to be heavily contested. The working paper explores a theoretical perspective that aims at analyzing and making sense of this contentious process by assessing the interplay between conflict and (mis)trust. Based on a review of the existing scholarship on legal pluralism and indigenous justice in the Andean region, with a particular focus on the cases of Bolivia and Ecuador, it is argued that manifest conflict over the contested recognition of indigenous justice can be considered as helpful and even necessary for the deconstruction of mistrust of indigenous justice. Still, such conflict can also help reproduce and even reinforce mistrust, depending on the ways in which conflict is dealt with politically and socially. The exploratory paper suggests four proposition that specify the complex and contingent relationship between conflict and (mis)trust in the contested negotiation of pluralist justice systems in the Andean region.

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Author:Jonas WolffORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-735181
Series (Serial Number):ConTrust Working Paper Series (No. 4)
Publisher:ConTrust - Trust in Conflict. Research Centre “Normative Orders” of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Place of publication:Frankfurt am Main
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2023/04/06
Year of first Publication:2023
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2023/04/28
Tag:Latin America; Mistrust; Trust; indigenous justice; legal pluralism
GND Keyword:Vertrauen; Mistrauen; Indigene Gerechtigkeit; Rechtspluralismus; Lateinamerika
Page Number:17
Institutes:Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Hessische Stiftung für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK)
Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0