Understanding the age of transitional justice : crimes, courts, commissions, and chronicling /

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Imprint:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Description:	vi, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Genocide, political violence, human rights series Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
Subject:	Political crimes and offenses. Transitional justice. Truth commissions. Political crimes and offenses. Transitional justice. Truth commissions.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11609923

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Other authors / contributors:	Adler, Nanci, editor.
ISBN:	9780813597775 0813597773 9780813597768 0813597765
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices--labeled Transitional Justice--has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice, the contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms and look at how genocide, mass political violence, and historical injustices are being institutionally addressed. They invite readers to speculate on what (else) the transcripts produced by these institutions tell us about the past and the present, calling attention to the influence of implicit history conveyed in the narratives that have gained an audience through international criminal tribunals, trials, and truth commissions. Nanci Adler has gathered leading specialists to scrutinize the responses to and effects of violent pasts that provide new perspectives for understanding and applying transitional justice mechanisms in an effort to stop the recycling of old repressions into new ones"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction: On history, historians, and transitional justice / Nanci Adler
Swinging the pendulum: fin de siècle historians in the courts / Vladimir Petrović-- Time, justice and human rights: statutory limitation on the right to truth? / William A. Schabas
How truth recovery can benefit from a conditional amnesty / Jeremy Sarkin
New epistemologies for confronting international crimes: developing the IDP approach to transitional justice / Stephan Parmentier, Mina Rauschenbach, Maarten van Craen
The spark for genocide? propaganda and historical narratives at international criminal tribunals / Richard Ashby Wilson
The international criminal trial record as historical source / Thijs B. Bouwknegt-- Narrating (in)justice in the form of a reparation claim: bottom-up reflections on a post-colonial setting - the Rawagede Case / Nicole L. Immler
Collective and competitive victimhood as identity in the former Yugoslavia / Christian Axboe Nielsen
Perpetrator-victims: how universal victimhood in Cambodia impacts transitional justice measures / Timothy Williams
Collective crimes, collective memory, and transitional justice in Bangladesh / Kjell Anderson.

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