My Neighbor, My Enemy Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity

Name: My Neighbor, My Enemy Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity
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ISBN: 9780521542647

ISBN-10: 0521542642

ISBN-13: 9780521542647

Edition: 2004

Authors: Eric Stover, Harvey M. Weinstein

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Tackling the crucial issue of our day--the rebuilding of countries following ethnic cleansing and genocide, this book evaluates the role of trials and tribunals with regard to social reconstruction and reconciliation. The voices of the people of Rwanda and Yugoslavia are heard through the results of extensive surveys and recorded conversations. Their thoughts of past and future controversially conclude that international and local trials have little relevance to reconciliation. The contributors find that communities interpret justice far more broadly than defined by the international community and the relationship of trauma to a desire for trials is not clear-cut. An ecological model of…

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List price: $53.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/2/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298

Harvey M. Weinstein is Associate Director of the Human Rights Center and a Clinical Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.



List of contributors


Foreword Ariel Dorfman


Acknowledgments


Introduction: conflict, justice and reclamation




Institutional Approaches to Justice: Introduction



A world unto itself? The application of international justice in the former Yugoslavia




Legal responses to genocide in Rwanda




Localizing justice: gacaca courts in post-genocide Rwanda Urusaro




Exhumation of mass graves: balancing legal and humanitarian needs




Witnesses and the promise of justice in The Hague




Reparations in the aftermath of repression and mass violence




Social Reconstruction and Justice: Introduction



Neighbors again? Intercommunity relations after ethnic cleansing




Memory, identity, and community in Rwanda




Attitudes toward justice and social reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia Miklos Biro




Connecting justice to human experience: attitudes toward accountability and reconciliation in Rwanda




Public education and social reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia




Confronting the past in Rwandan schools




Survivors and Justice: Introduction



Art out of the rubble




Trust and betrayal in war




Empathy and rehumanization after mass violence



Conclusion: a common objective, a universe of alternatives



Index