Critical perspectives in transitional justice /

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Imprint:	Cambridge : Intersentia, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 501 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:	English
Series:	Series on transitional justice ; v. 8 Series on transitional justice ; v. 8.
Subject:	Transitional justice. Human rights.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12597585

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Other authors / contributors:	Palmer, Nicola Frances, 1983- editor. Granville, Danielle, editor. Clark, Philip, 1979- editor.
ISBN:	9781839700224 (ebook) 9781780680354 (hardback)
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Dec 2020).
Summary:	In the last twenty years, the field of transitional justice has gone from being a peripheral concern to an ubiquitous feature of societies recovering from mass conflict or repressive rule. In both policy and scholarly realms, transitional justice has proliferated rapidly, with ever-increasing variety in terms of practical processes and analytical approaches. The sprawl of transitional justice, however, has not always produced concepts and practices that are theoretically sound and grounded in the empirical realities of the societies in question. Critical Perspectives in Transitional Justice takes stock of this burgeoning field and, in gathering the views of scholars and practitioners from a wide range of national and methodological backgrounds, explores four key concerns with current trends in transitional justice: the under-theorisation of the field, its disconnect from core academic disciplines, its tendency towards advocacy rather than analysis, and its emphasis on technical institutional responses without clear articulations of their objectives. This vital book - edited by Oxford Transitional Justice Research - is designed to deepen theoretical and empirical discussions within transitional justice by providing critical perspectives on common concepts, issues, methodologies, institutions and mechanisms. Its purpose is to clarify key terms, challenge core assumptions and highlight important tensions, inconsistencies and disagreements in the field with the ultimate aim of harnessing the enormous energy of transitional justice for more fruitful ends. The breadth of debates in this volume highlights the scope, inclusiveness and ambition of this field but also underscores that - despite its geographical, conceptual and disciplinary expanse - consistent questions arise regarding contextually appropriate objectives, the balance between individual and collective needs and interests, and securing the legitimacy of transitional processes among those affected by past violations.
Other form:	Print version: 9781780680354

Table of Contents:

Transitional justice and the just war tradition / Larry May
Transitional justice as retribution : revisiting its Kantian roots / Shaina P. Wang
A discourse theoretic approach to transitional justice ideals : conceptualising "reconciliation" as an empty universal in times of political transition / Judith Renner
Transitions as states of exception : towards a more general theory of transitional justice / Derk Venema
Commentary on critiquing core transitional justice concepts / Max Pensky
Human rights, international courts and deliberative democracy / Roberto Gargarella
Accountability after atrocity in Peru : the trial of former President Alberto Fujimori in comparative perspective / Jo-Marie Burt
Hybrid human rights mechanisms in post-conflict transitions : the experience of the Bosnian Human Rights Chamber / Antoine Buyse
International sentencing as a force for achieving peace through justice / Ralph Henham
Can international justice be restorative justice? : The role of reparations / Carolyn Hoyle
Commentary on accountability, human rights and the rule of law / Par Engstrom
Legitimacy, power and memory at the Extraordinary Chambers in the courts of Cambodia / Peter Manning
Outreach, inreach and civil society participation in transitional justice / Wendy Lambourne
"Blow your mind and cool your heart" : can tradition-based justice fill the transitional justice gap in Sierra Leone? / Martien Schotsmans
The elusive quest for reconciliation in Northern Uganda / Dean E. Peachey
Commentary on locality and legitimacy / Kieran McEvoy
"Lebanon of dignity, a people that perseveres" : a psychological perspective on collective amnesia in Lebanon and its implications for transitional justice / Diana Batchelor
Performing reconciliation : a performance approach to the analysis of political apologies / Michel-Andre Horelt
Self-inflicted genocide and state- and nation-building in post-Soviet Russia / Danielle Granville
Commentary on memory, ritual and apology / Julia Paulson
The end of impunity? : "Late justice" and post-transitional prosecutions in Latin America / Cath Collins
Transitional justice in post-communist Central-Eastern Europe : decommunisation and the rule of law / Adam Czarnota
Prosecutions, pardons and amnest : the trajectory of transitional accountability in South Africa / Hugo van der Merwe
Post-conflict accountability and the demands of justice : can conditional amnesties take the place of criminal prosecutions? / Antje du Bois-Pedain
Commentary on transitional justice after transition / Marjorie D. Jobson.

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