Understanding the age of transitional justice : crimes, courts, commissions, and chronicling /
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| Imprint: | New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2018. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Genocide, political violence, human rights Genocide, political violence, human rights series. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12351595 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813597782 0813597781 9780813597775 0813597773 9780813597768 0813597765 |