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Transitional justice : global mechanisms and local realities after genocide and mass violence / edited by Alexander Laban Hinton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hinton, Alexander Laban, Author.
- Series:
- Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
- Genocide, political violence, human rights series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transitional justice.
- Crimes against humanity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-38328-4
- 9786613383280
- 0-8135-5069-6
- OCLC:
- 768082559
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