Building Justice After War: The Use of Multiple Post-Conflict Justice Mechanisms

Part of a special issue on war, crisis, and transition. The writers evaluate the effectiveness of mechanisms to establish postconflict social justice. They analyze two well-known conflicts: Sierra Leone's civil war and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The writers provide an overview of both the con...

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Autor principal: Rothe, Dawn (Autor)
Otros Autores: Mullins, Christopher W.
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2008
En: Social justice
Año: 2008, Volumen: 35, Número: 3, Páginas: 87-106
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Verlag)
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Palabras clave:
Amnesty
Armistices
Human Rights
Peace
Peacebuilding
Rwandan Civil War, 1994
Sierra Leone Civil War, 1991-2002
Social Justice
Transitional Justice
Truth commissions
War crime trials
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Sumario:Part of a special issue on war, crisis, and transition. The writers evaluate the effectiveness of mechanisms to establish postconflict social justice. They analyze two well-known conflicts: Sierra Leone's civil war and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The writers provide an overview of both the conflicts and assess the multiple postconflict justice mechanisms that were instituted. They conclude that postconflict modalities vary significantly in effectiveness, and, when considered separately, none has met its expected goals. The writers underscore the importance of a country adopting multiple postconflict social justice strategies, since failures in one modality can be addressed by another.