Understanding The Age Of Transitional Justice

Author : Nanci Adler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813597803
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice written by Nanci Adler and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nanci Adler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813597781
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice written by Nanci Adler and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : K. Fisher
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113703050X
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transitional Justice for Child Soldiers written by K. Fisher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines and offers suggestions for how post-conflict practices should conceptualize and address harms committed by child soldiers for successful social reconstruction in the aftermath of mass atrocity. It defends the use of accountability and considers the agency of youth participants in violent conflict as responsible moral entities.

Author : Gerhard Werle
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3662651513
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transitional Justice written by Gerhard Werle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expression “transitional justice” emerged at the end of the Cold War, during the transition from dictatorships to democracies, and serves as a central concept in dealing with systemic injustice. This textbook examines the basic principles of transitional justice and explores its core mechanisms, including prosecutions, amnesties, truth commissions, reparations, and vetting the public service. It elaborates the substance and legal framework of these mechanisms and discusses current challenges. The book provides extensive material illustrating a wide variety of transitional justice situations. “This book summarizes the subjects of transitional justice and Vergangenheitsbewältigung systematically and clearly” (Joachim Gauck, German Federal President, 2012-2017).

Author : Cécile Aptel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936064151
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through a New Lens written by Cécile Aptel and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elin Skaar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317696913
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Violence written by Elin Skaar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Paolo Caroli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000593339
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transitional Justice in Italy and the Crimes of Fascism and Nazism written by Paolo Caroli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the Italian experience of transitional justice examining how the crimes of Fascism and World War II have been dealt with from a comparative perspective. Applying an interdisciplinary and comparative methodology, the book offers a detailed reconstruction of the prosecution of the crimes of Fascism and the Italian Social Republic as well as crimes committed by Nazi soldiers against Italian civilians and those of the Italian army against foreign populations. It also explores the legal qualification and prosecution of the actions of the Resistance. Particular focus is given to the Togliatti Amnesty, the major turning point, through comparisons to the wider European post-WWII transitional scenario and other relevant transitional amnesties, allowing consideration of the intense debate on the legitimacy of amnesties under international law. The book evaluates the Italian experience and provides an ideal framework to assess the complexity of the interdependencies between time, historical memory and the use of criminal law. In a historical moment marked by the resurgence of racism, neo-fascism, falsifications of the past, as well as the desire to amend the faults of the past, the Italian unfinished experience of dealing with the Fascist era can help move the discussion forward. The book will be essential reading for students, researchers and academics in International Criminal Law, Transitional Justice, History, Memory Studies and Political Science.

Author : Sharanjeet Parmar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780979639548
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children and Transitional Justice written by Sharanjeet Parmar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This musical release from the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under the conduction of Andris Nelsons captures a live performance by the ensemble, recorded for the Coventry Cathedral's 50th anniversary on May 30th, 2012. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

Author : Naomi Roht-Arriaza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139458655
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century written by Naomi Roht-Arriaza and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with the aftermath of civil conflict or the fall of a repressive government continues to trouble countries throughout the world. Whereas much of the 1990s was occupied with debates concerning the relative merits of criminal prosecutions and truth commissions, by the end of the decade a consensus emerged that this either/or approach was inappropriate and unnecessary. A second generation of transitional justice experiences have stressed both truth and justice and recognize that a single method may inadequately serve societies rebuilding after conflict or dictatorship. Based on studies in ten countries, this book analyzes how some combine multiple institutions, others experiment with community-level initiatives that draw on traditional law and culture, whilst others combine internal actions with transnational or international ones. The authors argue that transitional justice efforts must also consider the challenges to legitimacy and local ownership emerging after external military intervention or occupation.

Author : Zachary D. Kaufman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190668407
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice written by Zachary D. Kaufman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics, Zachary D. Kaufman explores the U.S. government's support for, or opposition to, certain transitional justice institutions. By first presenting an overview of possible responses to atrocities (such as war crimes tribunals) and then analyzing six historical case studies, Kaufman evaluates why and how the United States has pursued particular transitional justice options since World War II. This book challenges the "legalist" paradigm, which postulates that liberal states pursue war crimes tribunals because their decision-makers hold a principled commitment to the rule of law. Kaufman develops an alternative theory-"prudentialism"-which contends that any state (liberal or illiberal) may support bona fide war crimes tribunals. More generally, prudentialism proposes that states pursue transitional justice options, not out of strict adherence to certain principles, but as a result of a case-specific balancing of politics, pragmatics, and normative beliefs. Kaufman tests these two competing theories through the U.S. experience in six contexts: Germany and Japan after World War II, the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, the 1990-1991 Iraqi offenses against Kuwaitis, the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, and the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Kaufman demonstrates that political and pragmatic factors featured as or more prominently in U.S. transitional justice policy than did U.S. government officials' normative beliefs. Kaufman thus concludes that, at least for the United States, prudentialism is superior to legalism as an explanatory theory in transitional justice policymaking.