Rethinking Reconciliation And Transitional Justice After Conflict

Author : James Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429778708
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Reconciliation and Transitional Justice After Conflict written by James Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of reconciliation and transitional justice are inextricably linked in a new body of normative meta-theory underpinned by claims related to their effects in managing the transformation of deeply divided societies to a more stable and more democratic basis. This edited volume is dedicated to a critical re-examination of the key premises on which the debates in this field pivot. The contributions problematise core concepts, such as victimhood, accountability, justice and reconciliation itself; and provide a comparative perspective on the ethnic, ideological, racial and structural divisions to understand their rootedness in local contexts and to evaluate how they shape and constrain moving beyond conflict. With its systematic empirical analysis of a geographic and historic range of conflicts involving ethnic and racial groups, the volume furthers our grasp of contradictions often involved in transitional justice scholarship and practice and how they may undermine the very goals of peace, stability and reconciliation that they seek to promote. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Author : Kate Lefko-Everett
Publisher : HSRC Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780796925541
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Reconciliation written by Kate Lefko-Everett and published by HSRC Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together leading social scientists and researchers to critically interrogate the success of the reconciliatory project, using ten years of public opinion data collected by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) through the South African Reconciliation Barometer survey. Offering new and unique insights into contemporary South Africa society, it will be of transitional justice and post-conflict studies, including universities and students, researchers, policy-makers and the civil society sector.

Author : K. Ainley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113746822X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Transitional Justice written by K. Ainley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rachel Kerr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000331245
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconciliation after War written by Rachel Kerr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war. Reconciliation is a concept that resists easy definition. At the same time, it is almost invariably invoked as a goal of post-conflict reconstruction, peacebuilding and transitional justice. This book examines the considerable ambiguity and controversy surrounding the term and, crucially, asks what has reconciliation entailed historically? What can we learn from past episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation? Taken together, the chapters in this volume adopt an interdisciplinary approach, focused on the question of how reconciliation has been enacted, performed and understood in particular historical episodes, and how that might contribute to our understanding of the concept and its practice. Rather than seek a universal definition, the book focuses on what makes each case of reconciliation unique, and highlights the specificity of reconciliation in individual contexts. This book will be of much interest to students of transitional justice, conflict resolution, human rights, history and International Relations.

Author : Dustin N. Sharp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108598307
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Transitional Justice for the Twenty-First Century written by Dustin N. Sharp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transitional justice is the dominant lens through which the world grapples with legacies of mass atrocity, and yet it has rarely reflected the diversity of peace and justice traditions around the world. Hewing to a largely western and legalist script, truth commissions and war crimes tribunals have become the default means of 'doing justice'. Rethinking Transitional Justice for the Twenty-First Century puts the blind spots and assumptions of transitional justice under the microscope, and asks whether the field might be re-imagined to better suit the diversity and realities of the twenty-first century. At the core of this re-imagining is an examination of the broader field of post-conflict peace building and associated critical theory, from which both caution and inspiration can be drawn. By using this lens, Dustin N. Sharp shows how we might begin to generate a more cosmopolitan and mosaic theory, and imagine more creative and context-sensitive approaches to building peace with justice.

Author : Rita Shackel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319778900
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice written by Rita Shackel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings. This examination is especially important given the disappointing progress made to date in spite of concerted efforts over the last two decades. With contributions from both academics and practitioners working at national and international levels, this work integrates theory and practice, examining both global problems and highly contextual case studies including Kenya, Somalia, Peru, Afghanistan and DRC. The contributors aim to provide a comprehensive and compelling argument for the need to fundamentally rethink global approaches to gender justice.

Author : Gaby Oré Aguilar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780680033
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Transitions written by Gaby Oré Aguilar and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes thoughtful and rigorous research to the fundamental question how to apply truth, justice, reparations and institutional reform to fundamental û and often ancestral û inequalities in each transitional society.

Author : Giada Girelli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319536060
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Transitional Justice written by Giada Girelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an accurate and accessible introduction to the complex and dynamic field of transitional and post-conflict justice, providing an overview of its recurring concepts and debated issues. Particular attention is reserved to how these concepts and issues have been addressed, both theoretically and literally, by lawyers, policy-makers, international bodies, and other actors informing the practice. By presenting significant, if undeniably disputable, alternatives to mainstream theories and past methods of addressing past injustice and (re)building a democratic state, the work aims to illustrate some foundational themes of transitional justice that have emerged from a diverse set of discussions. The author’s position thus arrives from a careful analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of answers to the question: how, after a traumatic social experience, is justice restored?

Author : Karen Brounéus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Reconciliation written by Karen Brounéus and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nevin T. Aiken
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135086680
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice written by Nevin T. Aiken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon an interdisciplinary synthesis of recent literature from the fields of transitional justice and conflict transformation, this book introduces a groundbreaking theoretical framework that highlights the critical importance of identity in the relationship between transitional justice and reconciliation in deeply divided societies. Using this framework, Aiken argues that transitional justice interventions will be successful in promoting reconciliation and sustainable peace to the extent that they can help to catalyze those crucial processes of ‘social learning’ needed to transform the antagonistic relationships and identifications that divide post-conflict societies even after the signing of formal peace agreements. Combining original field research and an extensive series of expert interviews, Aiken applies this social learning model in a comprehensive examination of both the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the uniquely ‘decentralized’ approach to transitional justice that has emerged in Northern Ireland. By offering new insight into the experiences of these countries, Aiken provides compelling firsthand evidence to suggest that transitional justice interventions can best contribute to post-conflict reconciliation if they not only provide truth and justice for past human rights abuses, but also help to promote contact, dialogue and the amelioration of structural and material inequalities between former antagonists. Identity, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice makes a timely contribution to debates about how to best understand and address past human rights violations in post-conflict societies, and it offers a valuable resource to students, scholars, practitioners and policymakers dealing with these difficult issues.