Understanding the age of transitional justice : crimes, courts, commissions, and chronicling
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Understanding the age of transitional justice : crimes, courts, commissions, and chronicling
（Genocide, political violence, human rights series）
Rutgers University Press, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices-labeled Transitional Justice-has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice, the contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms and look at how genocide, mass political violence, and historical injustices are being institutionally addressed. They invite readers to speculate on what (else) the transcripts produced by these institutions tell us about the past and the present, calling attention to the influence of implicit history conveyed in the narratives that have gained an audience through international criminal tribunals, trials, and truth commissions. Nanci Adler has gathered leading specialists to scrutinize the responses to and effects of violent pasts that provide new perspectives for understanding and applying transitional justice mechanisms in an effort to stop the recycling of old repressions into new ones.
Table of Contents
Introduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice
Nanci Adler
Part I: Truth and Justice
Chapter 1: Swinging the Pendulum: Fin de Siecle Historians in the Courts
Vladimir Petrovic
Chapter 2: Time, Justice and Human Rights: Statutory Limitation on the Right to Truth?
William A. Schabas
Chapter 3: How Truth Recovery Can Benefit from a Conditional Amnesty
Jeremy Sarkin
Chapter 4: New Epistemologies for Confronting International Crimes: Developing the IDP Approach to Transitional Justice
Stephan Parmentier, Mina Rauschenbach, and Maarten van Craen
Part II: The Trial Record
Chapter 5: The Spark for Genocide? Propaganda and Historical Narratives at International Criminal Tribunals
Richard Ashby Wilson
Chapter 6: The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical Source
Thijs B. Bouwknegt
Part III: The Afterlife of Transitional Justice Processes
Chapter 7: Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-up Reflections on a Post-Colonial Setting - The Rawagede Case
Nicole L. Immler
Chapter 8: Collective and Competitive Victimhood as Identity in the Former Yugoslavia
Christian Axboe Nielsen
Chapter 9: Perpetrator-Victims: How Universal Victimhood in Cambodia Impacts Transitional Justice Measures
Timothy Williams
Chapter 10: Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh
Kjell Anderson
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index
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