1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450514203321

Autore

Sriram Chandra Lekha <1971, >

Titolo

Confronting past human rights violations : justice vs. peace in times of transition / / Chandra Lekha Sriram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Frank Cass, , 2004

ISBN

0-429-23020-6

1-135-76820-X

1-280-23974-3

9786610239740

0-203-31289-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

The Cass series on peacekeeping, , 1367-9880 ; ; 14

Disciplina

323.4/9

Soggetti

Truth commissions

Human rights

Crimes against humanity

War crimes

Government liability

Restorative justice

Amnesty

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 What makes accountability possible?; 2 Global experiences in transitional justice; 3 El Salvador; 4 Argentina; 5 Honduras; 6 South Africa; 7 Sri Lanka; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines what makes accountability for previous violations more or less possible for transitional regimes to achieve. It closely examines the other vital goals of such regimes against which accountability is often balanced. The options available are not simply prosecution or pardon, as the most heated polemics of the debate over transitional justice suggest, but a range of options from complete



amnesty through truth commissions and lustration or purification to prosecutions. The question, then, is not whether or not accountability can be achieved, but what degree of accountability ca

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807930603321

Autore

Bassler Gerhard P. <1937->

Titolo

Alfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival / / Gerhard P. Bassler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

1-4875-9642-1

9786612036910

1-4426-7074-6

1-282-03691-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (505 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

971.063/3/092

Soggetti

Political corruption - Newfoundland and Labrador

History

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Latvia History 1918-1940

Latvia History 1940-1991

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Wunderkind in Reborn Latvia: Background, Education, and Civil Service Career, 1908-1938 -- ; 2. 'The Most Active and Influential Member of the Cabinet': Minister of Finance, 1938-1939 -- ; 3. 'Better to Die Standing Up Than to Keep on Living on Your Knees': War, Resignation, and Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 -- ; 4. 'Elected to Lead and Manage Latvian National Affairs': The Janus Face of Collaboration, July 1941 to November 1942 -- ; 5. 'Made No Bones about His Antipathy to the German Regime': The Janus Face of Resistance, November 1942 to May 1945 -- ; 6. 'I Had Committed All My Heart and



My Efforts to Latvian Exiles': Refugee Politics, 1945-1948 -- ; 7. 'Starting Anew Like Our Fathers Did after the First World War': Immigrant in Canada, 1948-1950 -- ; 8. 'Develop of Perish': The Challenges of Newfoundland, 1950-1955 -- ; 9. 'The Past, Instead of Helping to Rebuild, Denies Itself': The Latvian Refugee Community and the Shadows of the Past, 1950-1954.

Sommario/riassunto

In this first serious biography of Alfred Valdmanis, historian Gerhard Bassler casts the story of this political manipulator and chameleon in new terms: the often tragic consequences of the will to survive."--Jacket

"Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring is more the stuff of fiction than history. Between 1938, at age 29, and his ironic downfall in the safe haven of Canada, he was a finance minister of pre-war Latvia, a government official during the Soviet invasion, a shrewd collaborator under the Nazi occupation, then, a friend to the Allies, a spokesman for Latvian POW and displaced persons, and an adviser to the government of Canada