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Title Localizing transitional justice : interventions and priorities after mass violence / edited by Rosalind Shaw and Lars Waldorf, with Pierre Hazan
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (364 pages)
Series Stanford studies in human rights
Stanford studies in human rights.
Contents Stay the hand of justice : whose priorities take priority? / Harvey M. Weinstein, Laurel E. Fletcher, Patrick Vinck, and Phuong Pham -- Transitional justice after September 11 : a new rapport with evil / Pierre Hazan -- An acknowledged failure : women, voice, violence, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Fiona Ross -- Histories of innocence : postwar stories in Peru / Kimberly Theidon -- Linking justice with reintegration? : ex-combatants and the Sierra Leone experiment / Rosalind Shaw -- Reconciliation grown bitter? : war, retribution, and ritual action in northern Uganda / Sverker Finnström -- Silence and dialogue : Burundians' alternatives to transitional justice / Ann Nee and Peter Uvin -- "Like Jews waiting for Jesus" : posthumous justice in post-genocide Rwanda / Lars Waldorf -- Weaving a braid of histories : local post-armed conflict initiatives in Guatemala / Laura Arriaza and Naomi-Roht-Arriaza -- Dealing with the past when the conflict is still present : civil society truth-seeking initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Ron Dudai and Hillel Cohen -- Afterword : elevating transitional local justice or crystallizing global governance? / Moses Chrispus Okello
Summary 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 Justice traces how ordinary people respond to-and sometimes transform-transitional justice mech
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-336) and index
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Subject Transitional justice.
Human rights.
Crimes against humanity.
Human Rights
LAW -- Essays.
LAW -- General Practice.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW -- Practical Guides.
LAW -- Reference.
Crimes against humanity
Human rights
Transitional justice
Form Electronic book
Author Shaw, Rosalind, editor
Waldorf, Lars, editor
Hazan, Pierre, editor
ISBN 9780804774635
0804774633
0804761493
9780804761499
0804761507
9780804761505