Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice: Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling

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...

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Other Authors: Adler, Nanci (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press [2018]
Series:Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
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Online Access:DE-1043
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DE-859
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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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource 10 figures, 4 tables
ISBN:9780813597805

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