Description
About the guest Editors: Natalia Potryvaieva and Oleh Semenenko
Natalia Potryvaieva is a Doctor of Military Sciences, Professor, and Head of the Research Department for Economic Analysis of Construction and Development Activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the Central Research Institute of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kyiv.
Oleh Semeneko is a Doctor of Military Sciences, Professor, Deputy Head of the Central Research Institute of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kyiv. He graduated from the Kyiv Institute of Air Forces and specializes in the construction and development of the Armed Forces. His recent research focuses on military-economic justification of strategic security and defense objectives, resource management in defense systems, technological superiority in large-scale armed conflicts, and the development of methods for assessing the firepower and strike capabilities of military units.
About the Issue
This thematic issue examines the salience of restorative justice to post-Soviet countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. These countries share a legacy of centralist, retributive justice systems, low victim participation and weak social reintegration. Legal reforms, war, emergency legal regimes and socio-economic disparities have demonstrated that retributive justice is unable to respond to these issues.
Restorative justice has particular, practical meaning in this context. It offers mechanisms for repairing harm, rebuilding social trust after conflict and dealing with the social harm that crime and violence produce over time. For societies that have experienced political upheaval and produced collective traumas, restorative justice keeps society together and restores trust in institutions. It allows justice systems to respond not just to law violations but to the needs of victims, communities and vulnerable groups, such as women and children, exposed to crime, violence or war.
In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, restorative justice is developing unevenly. In some countries, it forms part of the justice system; in others, it is fragmented or only partially developed. This thematic issue draws together empirical, comparative and theoretical contributions that consider how restorative justice functions in conditions of instability and transformation.
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Editorial by Oleh Semenenko and Natalia Potryvaieva (Open Access)
