RT Article
T1 Beyond Democratic Tolerance: Witch Killings in Timor-Leste
A1 Strating, Rebecca
A2 Edmondson, Beth
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1588525988
AB Newly democratising states experience challenges in reconciling 'traditional' or 'customary' dispute resolution practices with newly established state-based legal systems based on the rule of law. For Timor-Leste, these tensions are pronounced in continuing debates concerning the killing or injuring of women accused of witchcraft. Defences of extrajudicial punishments tend to conflate democracy with local support and fail to deal with the key institutions of democratic systems, including the rule of law, political equality, and civil rights. In Timor-Leste's case, where equality and social rights were incorporated into the Constitution as fundamental governmental obligations, localised extrajudicial punishments threaten internal and external state legitimacy and highlight the difficulties of ensuring the primacy of state-based institutions. Extrajudicial punishments challenge Timor-Leste's capacity to consolidate new liberal democratic political institutions. (author's abstract)
CN 321 301
K1 Demokratisierung
K1 Timor-Leste
K1 Rechtsordnung
K1 Rechtsstaat
K1 Rechtsbewusstsein
K1 Politisches Bewusstsein
K1 Gewalt
K1 Selbstjustiz
K1 Strafe
K1 Wert
K1 Traditionelle Kultur
K1 traditionelle Gesellschaft
K1 Frau
K1 Hexenverfolgung
K1 Menschenrechte
K1 Südostasien