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.
The causes and effects of performative violence are linked, and include intimidation, social and material control, social cohesion and communication, and structural violence.
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.
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.
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