Transitional justice : global mechanisms and local realities after genocide and mass violence / edited by Alexander Laban Hinton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hinton, Alexander Laban.

Series:

Genocide, political violence, human rights series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transitional justice.

Crimes against humanity.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2010]

Summary:

"The origins of this project date back to a 2007 symposium, 'Local justice : global mechanisms and local meanings in the aftermath of mass atrocity,' held at Rutgers University--Newark [N.J.] ... Several participants later presented papers in a session at the July 2007 meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina."--Acknowledgments.

Contents:

Introduction : Toward an anthropology of transitional justice / Alexander Laban Hinton

Identifying Srebrenica's missing : the "shaky balance" of universalism and particularism / Sarah Wagner

The failure of international justice in East Timor and Indonesia / Elizabeth F. Drexler

Body of evidence : feminicide, local justice, and rule of law in "peacetime" Guatemala / Victoria Sanford and Martha Lincoln

(In)justice : truth, reconciliation, and revenge in Rwanda's Gacaca / Jennie E. Burnet

Remembering genocide : hypocrisy and the violence of local/global "justice" in Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey

Genocide, affirmative repair, and the British Columbia treaty process / Andrew Woolford

Local justice and legal rights among the San and Bakgalagadi of the Central Kalahari, Botswana / Robert K. Hitchcock and Wayne A. Babchuk

Testimonies, truths, and transitions of justice in Argentina and Chile / Antonius C.G.M. Robben

Judging the "crime of crimes" : continuity and improvisation at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham

Building a monument : intimate politics of "reconciliation" in post-1965 Bali / Leslie Dwyer

Afterword : The consequences of transitional justice in particular contexts / Roger Duthie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813550688

9780813547619

081354761X

OCLC:

436866917

Publisher Number:

99944998798