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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460368203321

Autore

Shaw Rosalind

Titolo

Localizing Transitional Justice [[electronic resource] ] : Interventions and Priorities after Mass Violence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8047-7463-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

Stanford Studies in Human Rights

Altri autori (Persone)

WaldorfLars

HazanPierre

Disciplina

340/.115

Soggetti

Transitional justice

Human rights

Crimes against humanity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Localizing Transitional Justice -- Chapter 2. Stay the Hand of Justice -- Chapter 3. Transitional Justice After September 11 -- Chapter 4. An Acknowledged Failure -- Chapter 5. Histories of Innocence -- Chapter 6. Linking Justice with Reintegration? -- Chapter 7. Reconciliation Grown Bitter? -- Chapter 8. Silence and Dialogue -- Chapter 9. “Like Jews Waiting for Jesus” -- Chapter 10. Weaving a Braid of Histories -- Chapter 11. Dealing with the Past when the Conflict Is Still Present -- Chapter 12. Local Transitional Justice Practice in Pretransition Burma -- Afterword. Elevating Transitional Local Justice or Crystallizing Global Governance? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Through war crimes prosecutions, truth commissions, purges of perpetrators, reparations, and memorials, transitional justice practices work under the assumptions that truth telling leads to reconciliation, prosecutions bring closure, and justice prevents the recurrence of violence. But when local responses to transitional justice destabilize these assumptions, the result can be a troubling disconnection between international norms and survivors' priorities. Localizing Transitional



Justice traces how ordinary people respond to-and sometimes transform-transitional justice mechanisms, laying a...