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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827821403321

Autore

Leebaw Bronwyn Anne

Titolo

Judging state-sponsored violence, imagining political change / / Bronwyn Anne Leebaw [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-139-06351-0

1-107-21990-6

1-283-11103-9

9786613111036

1-139-07584-5

0-511-97649-6

1-139-07810-0

1-139-07009-6

1-139-08040-7

1-139-08267-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 210 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

342.08

Soggetti

International police

Transitional justice

Political violence

Crimes against humanity

Intervention (International law)

Truth commissions - South Africa - History

War crime trials - Germany - Nuremberg

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : transitional justice and the "gray zone" -- Human rights legalism and the legacy of Nuremberg -- A different kind of justice : South Africa's alternative to legalism -- Political judgment and transitional justice : actors and spectators --Rethinking restorative justice -- Remembering resistance -- Conclusion : the shadows of the past.



Sommario/riassunto

How should state-sponsored atrocities be judged and remembered? This controversial question animates contemporary debates on transitional justice and reconciliation. This book reconsiders the legacies of two institutions that transformed the theory and practice of transitional justice. Whereas the Nuremberg Trials exemplified the promise of legalism and international criminal justice, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission promoted restorative justice and truth commissions. Leebaw argues that the two frameworks share a common problem: both rely on criminal justice strategies to investigate experiences of individual victims and perpetrators, which undermines their critical role as responses to systematic atrocities. Drawing on the work of influential transitional justice institutions and thinkers such as Judith Shklar, Hannah Arendt, JoseĢ Zalaquett and Desmond Tutu, Leebaw offers a new approach to thinking about the critical role of transitional justice - one that emphasizes the importance of political judgment and investigations that examine complicity in, and resistance to, systematic atrocities.