Transitional Justice : : Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence /

Transitional Justice : : Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence / / ed. by Alexander Laban Hinton.

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How do societies come to terms with the aftermath of genocide and mass violence, and how might the international community contribute to this process? Recently, transitional justice mechanisms such as tribunals and truth commissions have emerged as a favored means of redress. Transitional Justice, t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Babchuk, Wayne A.,
Bleeker, Mô,
Burnet, Jennie E.,
Casey, Conerly,
Drexler, Elizabeth F.,
Duthie, Roger,
Dwyer, Leslie,
Eltringham, Nigel,
Hinton, Alexander Laban,
Hitchcock, Robert K.,
Lincoln, Martha,
Sanford, Victoria,
Wagner, Sarah,
Woolford, Andrew,
HerausgeberIn:
Hinton, Alexander Laban,
TeilnehmendeR:
Hinton, Alexander Laban.
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Transitional Justice
  • PART ONE. Transitional Frictions
  • 1. Identifying Srebrenica's Missing: The "Shaky Balance" of Universalism and Particularism
  • 2. The Failure of International Justice in East Timor and Indonesia
  • 3. Body of Evidence: Feminicide, Local Justice, and Rule of Law in "Peacetime" Guatemala
  • PART TWO. Justice in the Vernacular
  • 4. (In)Justice: Truth, Reconciliation, and Revenge in Rwanda's Gacaca
  • 5. Remembering Genocide: Hypocrisy and the Violence of Local/Global "Justice" in Northern Nigeria
  • 6. Genocide, Affi rmative Repair, and the British Columbia Treaty Process
  • 7. Local Justice and Legal Rights among the San and Bakgalagadi of the Central Kalahari, Botswana
  • PART THREE. Voice, Truth, and Narrative
  • 8. Testimonies, Truths, and Transitions of Justice in Argentina and Chile
  • 9. Judging the "Crime of Crimes": Continuity and Improvisation at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  • 10. Building a Monument: Intimate Politics of "Reconciliation" in Post-1965 Bali
  • Afterword: The Consequences of Transitional Justice in Particular Contexts
  • Contributors
  • Index

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