Understanding the age of transitional justice: crimes, courts, commissions, and chronicling

"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 anal...

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Contributors: Adler, Nanci 1963- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, Camden Newark, New Jersey London Rutgers University Press [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Online Access: Table of Contents
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Keywords:
Internationaler Strafgerichtshof
Political crimes and offenses
Transitional Justice
Truth commissions
Political Science > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights
Law > International
Social Science > Criminology
Law > Judicial Power
Konflikt
Auswirkung
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Friedenskonsolidierung
Strafgericht
Strafverfolgung
Kriminalität
Bekämpfung
Entwicklung
Erde
Aufsatzsammlung
Transitional Justice > Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Summary:"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"--
Item Description:Literaturhinweise, Register
Physical Description:vi, 250 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780813597775
9780813597768