Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice
Title | Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Hugo Van der Merwe |
Publisher | US Institute of Peace Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1601270364 |
In Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice, fourteen leading researchers study seventy countries that have suffered from autocratic rule, genocide, and protracted internal conflict.
Transitional Justice in Latin America
Title | Transitional Justice in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Elin Skaar |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2016-10-27 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1317526201 |
This book addresses current developments in transitional justice in Latin America – effectively the first region to undergo concentrated transitional justice experiences in modern times. Using a comparative approach, it examines trajectories in truth, justice, reparations, and amnesties in countries emerging from periods of massive violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The book examines the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, developing and applying a common analytical framework to provide a systematic, qualitative and comparative analysis of their transitional justice experiences. More specifically, the book investigates to what extent there has been a shift from impunity towards accountability for past human rights violations in Latin America. Using ‘thick’, but structured, narratives – which allow patterns to emerge, rather than being imposed – the book assesses how the quality, timing and sequencing of transitional justice mechanisms, along with the context in which they appear, have mattered for the nature and impact of transitional justice processes in the region. Offering a new approach to assessing transitional justice, and challenging many assumptions in the established literature, this book will be of enormous benefit to scholars and others working in this area.
Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice Mechanisms in Post-conflict Societies
Title | Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice Mechanisms in Post-conflict Societies PDF eBook |
Author | Soad Eshkal |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2019 |
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After Violence
Title | After Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Elin Skaar |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2015-04-17 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1317696913 |
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.
International Trials and Reconciliation
Title | International Trials and Reconciliation PDF eBook |
Author | Janine Natalya Clark |
Publisher | |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2015-09-08 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781138999206 |
Transitional justice is a burgeoning field of scholarly inquiry. Yet while the transitional justice literature is replete with claims about the benefits of criminal trials, too often these claims lack an empirical basis and hence remain unproven. While there has been much discussion about whether criminal trials can aid reconciliation, the extent to which they actually do so in practice remains under-explored. This book investigates the relationship between criminal trials and reconciliation, through a particular focus on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Using detailed empirical data in the form of qualitative interviews and observations from five years of fieldwork to assess and analyze the ICTY s impact on reconciliation in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia and Kosovo, International Trials and Reconciliation: Assessing the Impact of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia argues that reconciliation is not a realistic aim for a criminal court. They are, Janine Clark argues, only one part of a rich tapestry of justice, which must also include non-retributive transitional justice processes and mechanisms. Challenging many of the common yet untested assumptions about the benefits of criminal trials, this innovative and extremely timely monograph will be invaluable for those with interests in the theory and practice of transitional justice. "
Evaluating Transitional Justice
Title | Evaluating Transitional Justice PDF eBook |
Author | K. Ainley |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2016-02-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 113746822X |
This major study examines the successes and failures of the full transitional justice programme in Sierra Leone. It sets out the implications of the Sierra Leonean experience for other post-conflict situations and for the broader project of evaluating transitional justice.
Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions
Title | Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Ferrara |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2014-09-19 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1317804651 |
In 1990, after the end of the Pinochet regime, the newly-elected democratic government of Chile established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to investigate and report on some of the worst human rights violations committed under the seventeen-year military dictatorship. The Chilean TRC was one of the first truth commissions established in the world. This book examines whether and how the work of the Chilean TRC contributed to the transition to democracy in Chile and to subsequent developments in accountability and transformation in that country. The book takes a long term view on the Chilean TRC asking to what extent and how the truth commission contributed to the development of the transitional justice measures that ensued, and how the relationship with those subsequent developments was established over time.It argues that, contrary to the views and expectations of those who considered that the Chilean TRC was of limited success, that the Chilean TRC has, in fact, over the longer term, played a key role as an enabler of justice and a means by which ethical and institutional transformation has occurred within Chile. With the benefit of this historical perspective, the book concludes that the impact of truth commissions in general needs to be carefully reviewed in light of the Chilean experience. This book will be of great interest and use to students and scholars of conflict resolution, criminal international law, and comparative legal systems in Latin America.