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Localizing Transitional Justice : Interventions and Priorities after Mass Violence
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, Rosalind.
- Series:
- Stanford Studies in Human Rights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transitional justice.
- Human rights.
- Crimes against humanity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through war crimes prosecutions, truth commissions, purges of perpetrators, reparations, and memorials, transitional justice practices work under the assumptions that truth telling leads to reconciliation, prosecutions bring closure, and justice prevents the recurrence of violence. But when local responses to transitional justice destabilize these assumptions, the result can be a troubling disconnection between international norms and survivors' priorities. Localizing Transitional Justice traces how ordinary people respond to-and sometimes transform-transitional justice mechanisms, laying a...
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Localizing Transitional Justice
- Chapter 2. Stay the Hand of Justice
- Chapter 3. Transitional Justice After September 11
- Chapter 4. An Acknowledged Failure
- Chapter 5. Histories of Innocence
- Chapter 6. Linking Justice with Reintegration?
- Chapter 7. Reconciliation Grown Bitter?
- Chapter 8. Silence and Dialogue
- Chapter 9. “Like Jews Waiting for Jesus”
- Chapter 10. Weaving a Braid of Histories
- Chapter 11. Dealing with the Past when the Conflict Is Still Present
- Chapter 12. Local Transitional Justice Practice in Pretransition Burma
- Afterword. Elevating Transitional Local Justice or Crystallizing Global Governance?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804774635
- 0804774633
- OCLC:
- 1198931224
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