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Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice

Author : Nanci Adler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813597803
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice written by Nanci Adler and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice

Author : Nanci Adler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813597781
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice written by Nanci Adler and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Transitional Justice for Child Soldiers

Author : K. Fisher
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113703050X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Transitional Justice for Child Soldiers written by K. Fisher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines and offers suggestions for how post-conflict practices should conceptualize and address harms committed by child soldiers for successful social reconstruction in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It defends the use of accountability and considers the agency of youth participants in violent conflict as responsible moral entities.

Transitional Justice

Author : Gerhard Werle
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3662651513
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Transitional Justice written by Gerhard Werle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expression “transitional justice” emerged at the end of the Cold War, during the transition from dictatorships to democracies, and serves as a central concept in dealing with systemic injustice. This textbook examines the basic principles of transitional justice and explores its core mechanisms, including prosecutions, amnesties, truth commissions, reparations, and vetting the public service. It elaborates the substance and legal framework of these mechanisms and discusses current challenges. The book provides extensive material illustrating a wide variety of transitional justice situations. “This book summarizes the subjects of transitional justice and Vergangenheitsbewältigung systematically and clearly” (Joachim Gauck, German Federal President, 2012-2017).

Transitional Justice in Italy and the Crimes of Fascism and Nazism

Author : Paolo Caroli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000593339
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Transitional Justice in Italy and the Crimes of Fascism and Nazism written by Paolo Caroli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the Italian experience of transitional justice examining how the crimes of Fascism and World War II have been dealt with from a comparative perspective. Applying an interdisciplinary and comparative methodology, the book offers a detailed reconstruction of the prosecution of the crimes of Fascism and the Italian Social Republic as well as crimes committed by Nazi soldiers against Italian civilians and those of the Italian army against foreign populations. It also explores the legal qualification and prosecution of the actions of the Resistance. Particular focus is given to the Togliatti Amnesty, the major turning point, through comparisons to the wider European post-WWII transitional scenario and other relevant transitional amnesties, allowing consideration of the intense debate on the legitimacy of amnesties under international law. The book evaluates the Italian experience and provides an ideal framework to assess the complexity of the interdependencies between time, historical memory and the use of criminal law. In a historical moment marked by the resurgence of racism, neo-fascism, falsifications of the past, as well as the desire to amend the faults of the past, the Italian unfinished experience of dealing with the Fascist era can help move the discussion forward. The book will be essential reading for students, researchers and academics in International Criminal Law, Transitional Justice, History, Memory Studies and Political Science.

Children and Transitional Justice

Author : Sharanjeet Parmar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780979639548
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Children and Transitional Justice written by Sharanjeet Parmar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This musical release from the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under the conduction of Andris Nelsons captures a live performance by the ensemble, recorded for the Coventry Cathedral's 50th anniversary on May 30th, 2012. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice

Author : Zachary D. Kaufman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190668407
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice written by Zachary D. Kaufman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics, Zachary D. Kaufman explores the U.S. government's support for, or opposition to, certain transitional justice institutions. By first presenting an overview of possible responses to atrocities (such as war crimes tribunals) and then analyzing six historical case studies, Kaufman evaluates why and how the United States has pursued particular transitional justice options since World War II. This book challenges the "legalist" paradigm, which postulates that liberal states pursue war crimes tribunals because their decision-makers hold a principled commitment to the rule of law. Kaufman develops an alternative theory-"prudentialism"-which contends that any state (liberal or illiberal) may support bona fide war crimes tribunals. More generally, prudentialism proposes that states pursue transitional justice options, not out of strict adherence to certain principles, but as a result of a case-specific balancing of politics, pragmatics, and normative beliefs. Kaufman tests these two competing theories through the U.S. experience in six contexts: Germany and Japan after World War II, the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, the 1990-1991 Iraqi offenses against Kuwaitis, the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Kaufman demonstrates that political and pragmatic factors featured as or more prominently in U.S. transitional justice policy than did U.S. government officials' normative beliefs. Kaufman thus concludes that, at least for the United States, prudentialism is superior to legalism as an explanatory theory in transitional justice policymaking.

After Violence

Author : Elin Skaar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317696913
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book After Violence written by Elin Skaar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Violence: Transitional Justice, Peace, and Democracy examines the effects of transitional justice on the development of peace and democracy. Anticipated contributions of transitional justice mechanisms are commonly stated in universal terms, with little regard for historically specific contexts. Yet a truth commission, for example, will not have the same function in a society torn by long-term civil war or genocide as in a society emerging from authoritarian repression. Addressing trials, reparations, truth commissions, and amnesties, the book systematically addresses the experiences of four very different contemporary transitional justice cases: post-authoritarian Uruguay and Peru and post-conflict Rwanda and Angola. Its analysis demonstrates that context is a crucial determinant of the impact of transitional justice processes, and identifies specific contextual obstacles and limitations to these processes. The book will be of much interest to scholars in the fields of transitional justice and peacebuilding, as well as students generally concerned with human rights and democratisation.

Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139458655
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century written by Naomi Roht-Arriaza and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with the aftermath of civil conflict or the fall of a repressive government continues to trouble countries throughout the world. Whereas much of the 1990s was occupied with debates concerning the relative merits of criminal prosecutions and truth commissions, by the end of the decade a consensus emerged that this either/or approach was inappropriate and unnecessary. A second generation of transitional justice experiences have stressed both truth and justice and recognize that a single method may inadequately serve societies rebuilding after conflict or dictatorship. Based on studies in ten countries, this book analyzes how some combine multiple institutions, others experiment with community-level initiatives that draw on traditional law and culture, whilst others combine internal actions with transnational or international ones. The authors argue that transitional justice efforts must also consider the challenges to legitimacy and local ownership emerging after external military intervention or occupation.

Frozen Justice: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Failed Transitional Justice Strategy

Author : Jared O. Bell
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622735978
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Frozen Justice: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Failed Transitional Justice Strategy written by Jared O. Bell and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1993 the United Nations Security Council founded the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Based in the Hague, Netherlands, the ICTY was formed with the objective of prosecuting those who had committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia during the early to mid-90s. During its mandate (1993-2017), the tribunal heard many cases and tried numerous perpetrators, from those who carried out the killings to those who orchestrated and ordered them. In spite of its accomplishments, the ICTY is considered to be highly controversial. It is debated if the ICTY did enough to foster healing and reconciliation in many of the conflict-torn societies. Many scholars argue that the tribunal operated adequately within their mandate and sought to promote justice and reconciliation, however, those who lived through the brutal wars would argue that there has simply been no justice. Importantly, Bosnia and Herzegovina still remains a country divided by issues of post-conflict justice, among other things. In 2010 a government-led strategic plan emerged that was intended to deal with the unfinished “business” of justice and promote reconciliation throughout the country. However, it failed to do this, and there is currently no political will or momentum to revive it. But, was this strategy doomed to failure from the beginning? In the form of a quantitative study, this book examines the possibility of reconciliation being achieved in Bosnia and Herzegovina through the methods fostered by the strategy. Focusing on three major cities, Sarajevo, Mostar, and Banja Luka, Dr. Jared Bell surveyed nearly 500 people in order to shed light on the subject of the national transitional justice strategy and reconciliation from the perspective of the everyday populace.

Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability

Author : Francesca Lessa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025001
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability written by Francesca Lessa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together well-established and emerging scholars of transitional justice to discuss the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability. The volume attempts to reframe debates, moving beyond the limited approaches of 'truth versus justice' or 'stability versus accountability' in which many of these issues have been cast in the existing scholarship. The theoretical and empirical contributions in this book offer new ways of understanding and tackling the enduring persistence of amnesty in the age of accountability. In addition to cross-national studies, the volume encompasses eleven country cases of amnesty for past human rights violations: Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Uganda and Uruguay. The volume goes beyond merely describing these case studies, but also considers what we learn from them in terms of overcoming impunity and promoting accountability to contribute to improvements in human rights and democracy.

An Introduction to Transitional Justice

Author : Olivera Simić
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317373774
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Transitional Justice written by Olivera Simić and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive overview of transitional justice judicial and non-judicial measures implemented by societies to redress legacies of massive human rights abuse. Written by some of the leading experts in the field it takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the subject, addressing the dominant transitional justice mechanisms as well as key themes and challenges faced by scholars and practitioners. Using a wide historic and geographic range of case studies to illustrate key concepts and debates, and featuring discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, this is an essential introduction to the subject for students.

Globalizing Transitional Justice

Author : Ruti G. Teitel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190221372
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Globalizing Transitional Justice written by Ruti G. Teitel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most prominent and significant political and legal developments since the end of the Cold War is the proliferation of mechanisms for addressing the complex challenges of transition from authoritarian rule to human rights-based democratic constitutionalism, particularly with regards to the demands for accountability in relation to conflicts and abuses of the past. Ruti G. Teitel provides a collection of her own essays that embody her evolving reflections on the practice and discourse of transitional justice.

Child Soldiers as Agents of War and Peace

Author : Leonie Steinl
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462652015
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Child Soldiers as Agents of War and Peace written by Leonie Steinl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with child soldiers’ involvement in crimes under international law. Child soldiers are often victims of grave human rights abuses, and yet, in some cases, they also participate actively in inflicting violence upon others. Nonetheless, the international discourse on child soldiers often tends to ignore the latter dimension of children’s involvement in armed conflict and instead focuses exclusively on their role as victims. While it might seem as though the discourse is therefore beneficial for child soldiers as it protects them from blame and responsibility, it is important to realize that the so-called passive victim narrative entails various adverse consequences, which can hinder the successful reintegration of child soldiers into their families, communities and societies. This book aims to address this dilemma. First, the available options for dealing with child soldiers’ participation in crimes under international law, such as transitional justice and criminal justice, and their shortcomings are analyzed in depth. Subsequently a new approach is developed towards achieving accountability in a child-adequate way, which is called restorative transitional justice. This book is in the first place aimed at researchers with an interest in child soldiers, children and armed conflict, as well as international criminal law, transitional justice, juvenile justice, restorative justice, children’s rights, and international human rights law. Secondly, professionals working on issues of transitional justice, juvenile justice, international criminal law, children’s rights, and the reintegration of child soldiers will also find the subject matter of great relevance to their practice. Dr. Leonie Steinl, LL.M. (Columbia) is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.

Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and the Reconstruction of Political Order in Latin America

Author : Michelle Frances Carmody
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319783939
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and the Reconstruction of Political Order in Latin America written by Michelle Frances Carmody and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America, decades after the fall of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s, transitional justice has proven to be anything but transitional—it has become a cornerstone of state policy and a powerful tool of state formation. Contextualizing cultural and political shifts in Argentina after the 1976 military coup with comparisons to other countries in the Southern Cone, Michelle Frances Carmody argues that incorporating human rights practices into official policy became a way for state actors to both build the authority of the state and manage social conflict, a key aim of post-Cold War democracies. By examining the relationship between transitional justice and the Latin American political order, this book illuminates overlooked dimensions of state formation in the age of human rights.

Globalizing Transitional Justice

Author : Ruti G. Teitel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190291133
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Globalizing Transitional Justice written by Ruti G. Teitel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most prominent and significant political and legal developments since the end of the Cold War is the proliferation of mechanisms for addressing the complex challenges of transition from authoritarian rule to human rights-based democratic constitutionalism, particularly with regards to the demands for accountability in relation to conflicts and abuses of the past. Whether one thinks of the Middle East, South Africa, the Balkans, Latin America, or Cambodia, an extraordinary amount of knowledge has been gained and processes instituted through transitional justice. No longer a byproduct or afterthought, transitional justice is unquestionably the driver of political change. In Globalizing Transitional Justice, Ruti G. Teitel provides a collection of her own essays that embody her evolving reflections on the practice and discourse of transitional justice since her book Transitional Justice published back in 2000. In this new book, Teitel focuses on the ways in which transitional justice concepts have found legal expression, especially through human rights law and jurisprudence, and international criminal law. These essays shed light on some of the difficult choices encountered in the design of transitional justice: criminal trials vs. amnesties, or truth commissions; domestic or international processes; peace and reconciliation vs. accountability and punishment. Transitional justice is considered not only in relation to political events and legal developments, but also in relation to the broader social and cultural tendencies of our times.

State Crime in the Global Age

Author : William J. Chambliss
Publisher : Willan
ISBN 13 : 1134025556
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book State Crime in the Global Age written by William J. Chambliss and published by Willan. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together original writings from leading scholars in the field to explore the many ways that the use and abuse of state power results in grave social harms that outweigh, by far, the consequences of ordinary street crime. The topics covered include the crimes of empire, illegal war, the bombing of civilians, state sanctioned torture, state sacrifice of human lives, and judicial wrongdoing.