The dynamics of transitional justice : international models and local realities in East Timor / Lia Kent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kent, Lia, author.

Series:

Transitional justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transitional justice--Timor-Leste.

Transitional justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Dynamics of Transitional Justice draws on the case of East Timor in order to reassess how transitional justice mechanisms actually play out at the local level. Transitional justice mechanisms - including trials and truth commissions - have become firmly entrenched as part of the United Nations 'tool-kit' for successful post-conflict recovery. It is now commonly assumed that by establishing individual accountability for human rights violations, and initiating truth-seeking and reconciliation programs, individuals and societies will be assisted to 'come to terms' with the violent

Contents:

The global celebration of transitional justice and the East Timor reality

Interrogating 'transition' and 'justice'

Stability versus retributive justice : unpacking the UN's East Timor 'success story'

The serious crimes process and the commission for reception, truth and reconciliation : justice possibilities and impossibilities

National unity, collective struggle and the future: the East Timorese leadership's narratives of justice and nation-building

Local narratives of (in)justice: recognition, retribution and economic assistance

Local memory practices and the emerging politics of victims' rights

Rethinking transitional justice.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-30345-6

0-203-11743-3

1-283-89377-0

1-136-30346-4

9780203117439

OCLC:

823389700