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

• Autore: Leebaw Bronwyn Anne
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 342.08
• Soggetto topico: International police; Transitional justice; Political violence; Crimes against humanity; Intervention (International law); Truth commissions - South Africa - History; War crime trials - Germany - Nuremberg
• 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, José 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Judging state-sponsored violence, imagining political change
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790077703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II