Peace versus justice? : the dilemma of transitional justice in Africa /
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| Imprint: | Oxford : James Currey, 2010. |
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| Description: | xiii, 373 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8063198 |
Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding
- Part 1. Peace and Justice in Africa
- 1. The Politics of Transitional Justice
- 2. Inclusive Justice: The Limitations of Trial Justice and Truth Commissions
- 3. Prosecute or Pardon? Between Truth Commissions and War Crimes Trials
- 4. Gender and Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Comparative Reflections
- 5. Transitional Justice, Democratisation and the Rule of Law
- Part II. Truth and Reconciliation Processes
- 6. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission from a Global Perspective
- 7. Reflecting on the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Peacebuilding Perspective
- 8. Peace versus Justice? A View from Nigeria
- 9. A Path to Peace and Justice: Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission in Retrospect
- 10. Peace and Justice: Mozambique and Sierra Leone Compared
- Part III. War Crimes Tribunals
- 11. Sierra Leone's 'not-so' Special Court
- 12. Charles Taylor, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and International Politics
- 13. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Reconciling the Acquitted
- Part IV. Indigenous Justice
- 14. The Politics of Peace, Justice and Healing in Post-war Mozambique: 'Practices of Rupture' by Magamba Spirits and Healers in Gorongosa
- 15. Indigenous Justice or Political Instrument? The Modern Gacaca Courts of Rwanda
- Part V. The International Criminal Court: Problems and Prospects
- 16. The International Criminal Court Africa Experiment: The Central African Republic, Darfur, Northern Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 17. The International Criminal Court in Darfur
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index
