Judging justice : how victim witnesses evaluate international courts /
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Author / Creator: | Meernik, James David, author. |
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Imprint: | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2019] |
Description: | 1 online resource (206 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12681435 |
Other authors / contributors: | King, Kimi Lynn, author. |
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ISBN: | 0472124854 9780472124855 9780472131266 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2019). |
Summary: | Some injustices are so massive, so heinous, and so extraordinary that ordinary courts are no longer adequate. The creation of international courts and tribunals to confront major violations of human rights sought to bring justice to affected communities as well as to the entire world. Yet if justice is a righting of the imbalance between what has happened and what is reflected in the law, no amount of punishment and no judgment could compensate for that suffering and loss. In order to understand the meaning of justice, James David Meernik and Kimi Lynn King studied the perspective of witnesses who have testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Using a unique survey, Meernik and King look at the identity of the victims and their perception of the fairness of ICTY. Because of the need to justify the practical and emotional difficulties involved in testifying before an international tribunal, witnesses look not just to the institution to judge its effectiveness, but also to their own contribution, by testifying effectively. The central elements of the theory Meernik and King develop-identity, fairness, and experience-transcend specific conflicts and countries and are of importance to people everywhere. |
Other form: | Print version: Meernik, James David. Judging justice. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2019] 9780472131266 |
Standard no.: | 10.3998/mpub.10033319 |
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