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Localizing Transitional Justice : Interventions and Priorities after Mass Violence.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Stanford Studies in Human Rights SeriesPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (364 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804774635
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Localizing Transitional JusticeDDC classification:
  • 340/.115
LOC classification:
  • JC571
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface (Ruti G. Teitel) -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Part I: Frames -- 1. Introduction: Localizing Transitional Justice (Rosalind Shaw and Lars Waldorf) -- 2. Stay the Hand of Justice: Whose Priorities Take Priority? (Harvey M. Weinstein, Laurel E. Fletcher, Patrick Vinck, and Phuong N. Pham) -- 3. Transitional Justice After September 11: A New Rapport with Evil (Pierre Hazan) -- Part II: Local Engagements -- 4. An Acknowledged Failure: Women, Voice, Violence, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Fiona C. Ross) -- 5. Histories of Innocence: Postwar Stories in Peru (Kimberly Theidon) -- 6. Linking Justice with Reintegration? Ex-Combatants and the Sierra Leone Experiment (Rosalind Shaw) -- Part III: Power, Politics, and Priorities -- 7. Reconciliation Grown Bitter? War, Retribution, and Ritual Action in Northern Uganda (Sverker Finnström) -- 8. Silence and Dialogue: Burundians' Alternatives to Transitional Justice (Ann Nee and Peter Uvin) -- 9. "Like Jews Waiting for Jesus": Posthumous Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda (Lars Waldorf) -- Part IV: Practicing Place-Based Justice -- 10. Weaving a Braid of Histories: Local Post-Armed Conflict Initiatives in Guatemala (Laura J. Arriaza and Naomi Roht-Arriaza) -- 11. Dealing with the Past when the Conflict Is Still Present: Civil Society Truth-Seeking Initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Ron Dudai and Hillel Cohen) -- 12. Local Transitional Justice Practice in Pretransition Burma (Patrick Falvey) -- Afterword: Elevating Transitional Local Justice or Crystallizing Global Governance? (Moses Chrispus Okello) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This work critically examines standard assumptions of transitional justice through the lens of survivors' standpoints, and argues for more responsive and place-based approaches to social reconstruction after mass violence and egregious human rights violations.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface (Ruti G. Teitel) -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Part I: Frames -- 1. Introduction: Localizing Transitional Justice (Rosalind Shaw and Lars Waldorf) -- 2. Stay the Hand of Justice: Whose Priorities Take Priority? (Harvey M. Weinstein, Laurel E. Fletcher, Patrick Vinck, and Phuong N. Pham) -- 3. Transitional Justice After September 11: A New Rapport with Evil (Pierre Hazan) -- Part II: Local Engagements -- 4. An Acknowledged Failure: Women, Voice, Violence, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Fiona C. Ross) -- 5. Histories of Innocence: Postwar Stories in Peru (Kimberly Theidon) -- 6. Linking Justice with Reintegration? Ex-Combatants and the Sierra Leone Experiment (Rosalind Shaw) -- Part III: Power, Politics, and Priorities -- 7. Reconciliation Grown Bitter? War, Retribution, and Ritual Action in Northern Uganda (Sverker Finnström) -- 8. Silence and Dialogue: Burundians' Alternatives to Transitional Justice (Ann Nee and Peter Uvin) -- 9. "Like Jews Waiting for Jesus": Posthumous Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda (Lars Waldorf) -- Part IV: Practicing Place-Based Justice -- 10. Weaving a Braid of Histories: Local Post-Armed Conflict Initiatives in Guatemala (Laura J. Arriaza and Naomi Roht-Arriaza) -- 11. Dealing with the Past when the Conflict Is Still Present: Civil Society Truth-Seeking Initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Ron Dudai and Hillel Cohen) -- 12. Local Transitional Justice Practice in Pretransition Burma (Patrick Falvey) -- Afterword: Elevating Transitional Local Justice or Crystallizing Global Governance? (Moses Chrispus Okello) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This work critically examines standard assumptions of transitional justice through the lens of survivors' standpoints, and argues for more responsive and place-based approaches to social reconstruction after mass violence and egregious human rights violations.

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