Localizing Transitional Justice Interventions and Priorities after Mass Violence

Name: Localizing Transitional Justice Interventions and Priorities after Mass Violence
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ISBN: 9780804761505

ISBN-10: 0804761507

ISBN-13: 9780804761505

Edition: 2010

Authors: Rosalind Shaw, Waldorf Lars, Pierre Hazan, Lars Waldorf, Lars Waldorf

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Through war crimes prosecutions, truth commissions, purges of perpetrators, reparations, and memorials, transitional justice practices work under the assumptions that truth telling leads to reconciliation, prosecutions bring closure, and justice prevents the recurrence of violence. But when local responses to transitional justice destabilize these assumptions, the result can be a troubling disconnection between international norms and survivors' priorities. Localizing Transitional Justicetraces how ordinary people respond toand sometimes transformtransitional justice mechanisms, laying a foundation for more locally responsive approaches to social reconstruction after mass violence and…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/23/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface



Acknowledgments


Contributors



Frames



Introduction: Localizing Transitional Justice




Stay the Hand of Justice: Whose Priorities Take Priority?




Transitional Justice After September 11: A New Rapport with Evil




Local Engagements



An Acknowledged Failure: Women, Voice, Violence, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission




Histories of Innocence: Postwar Stories in Peru




Linking Justice with Reintegration? Ex-Combatants and the Sierra Leone Experiment




Power, Politics, and Priorities



Reconciliation Grown Bitter? War, Retribution, and Ritual Action in Northern Uganda




Silence and Dialogue: Burundians' Alternatives to Transitional Justice




"Like Jews Waiting for Jesus": Posthumous Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda




Practicing Place-Based Justice



Weaving a Braid of Histories: Local Post-Armed Conflict Initiatives in Guatemala




Dealing with the Past when the Conflict Is Still Present: Civil Society Truth-Seeking Initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict




Local Transitional Justice Practice in Pretransition Burma



Afterword: Elevating Transitional Local Justice or Crystallizing Global Governance?



Notes


Bibliography


Index