Transitional Justice from Below : Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
- Human Rights Law in Perspective Series .
- Human Rights Law in Perspective Series .
Prelims -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- The Contributors -- 1 Transitional Justice From Below: An Agenda for Research, Policy and Praxis -- I Introduction -- II The 'From Below' Perspective -- III Enriching Transitional Justice 'From Above' -- IV The Contested Meanings of Transition -- V Human Rights as a Site of Struggle in Transitional Justice -- VI Justice From Below 'Warts and All' -- VII The Collection -- 2 Letting Go of Legalism: Developing a 'Thicker' Version of Transitional Justice -- I Introduction -- II Transitional Justice and the Notion of Legalism -- III Towards a Thicker Understanding of Transitional Justice -- IV Conclusion -- 3 International Law as a 'Tiered Process': Transitional Justice at the Local, National and International Level -- I Introduction -- II Beyond the International Law Hegemon -- III National and Local Responses to Conflict -- IV International Law and Re-Shaping the Transitional Hegemon -- V Conclusion -- 4 Constitution-making, Transition and the Reconstitution of Society -- I Introduction -- II Constitution-Making: From Nation-Building to Transition -- III Governmentality and the Nature of Constitutional Power -- IV Constitutional Process: Participation, Democratic Decision-Making and Rights Discourses -- V Conclusion -- 5 The Role of Community In Participatory Transitional Justice -- I Introduction -- II Transition and Justice -- III Critiquing the 'Post-Conflict Agenda'? -- IV Pushing an Open Door? Moving Toward Participation -- V Learning About a Bottom-Up, Participatory Approach -- VI The Ardoyne Commemoration Project: A Case Study of Bottom-Up Transitional Justice -- VII Conclusion -- 6 The Lost Agenda: Economic Crimes and Truth Commissions in Latin America and Beyond -- I Introduction -- II Truth Commissions and the Framework of Acculturation. III Why Include Economic Crimes in Transitional Justice Schemes? The Context and Some Working Hypotheses -- IV Looking Beyond Latin America -- V Conclusion -- 7 Social Repair at the Local Level: The Case of Guatemala -- I Introduction -- II The Complex Nature of the Armed Conflict and the Post-Armed Conflict Landscape -- III Local, National and International Responses to Armed Conflict and Social Breakdown -- IV Guatemalan Post-Armed Conflict Local Initiatives -- V Conclusions -- 8 The Political Economy of Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste -- I Introduction -- II The Backdrop of Repression -- III The Flaws of Transitional Justice 'From Above' -- IV The Potential and Pitfalls of Transitional Justice From Below -- V Conclusion -- 9 Challenging Impunity from Below: The Contested Ownership of Transitional Justice in Colombia -- I Introduction -- II The Official Image of Transition in Colombia -- III From de Facto to de Jure Control: Colombia's Critical Voices 'From Below' -- IV Transitional Justice as 'Bottom-Up' Resistance: The Potential of the Truth, Justice and Right to Reparations Discourse -- V Transitional Justice From Below: Localised Emerging Sites of Transition -- VI Conclusion -- 10 Burden or Benefit? Paradoxes of Penal Transition in Russia -- I Introduction -- II Transitional Justice, Prisons and Global Change -- III Russia's Twentieth Century Penal Atrocity -- IV Penal Cosmopolitanism and Transitional Justice From Above -- V Failed PEnal Societies and Transitional Justice From Below -- VI Carceral Disgrace and the Importance of Shame -- VII Conclusion -- Index.
This book supasses the existing scholarship on transitional justice, emphasising the need for bespoke solutions to different transitions.
9781847314420
Crimes against humanity. Criminal justice, Administration of. Truth commissions. Transitional justice.