Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice : : Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling / / ed. by Nanci Adler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Adler, Nanci,; Anderson, Kjell,; Bouwknegt, Thijs B.,; Craen, Maarten van,; Immler, Nicole L.,; Nielsen, Christian Axboe,; Parmentier, Stephan,; Petrović, Vladimir,; Rauschenbach, Mina,; Sarkin, Jeremy,; Schabas, William A.,; Williams, Timothy,; Wilson, Richard Ashby,
• HerausgeberIn: Adler, Nanci,
• TeilnehmendeR: Adler, Nanci.; Anderson, Kjell.; Bouwknegt, Thijs B.; Craen, Maarten van.; Immler, Nicole L.; Nielsen, Christian Axboe.; Parmentier, Stephan.; Petrovic, Vladimir.; Rauschenbach, Mina.; Sarkin, Jeremy.; Schabas, William A.; Williams, Timothy.; Wilson, Richard Ashby.
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.) :; 10 figures, 4 tables

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice
• Part I: The complex relationship between truth and justice
• 1. Swinging the Pendulum: Fin-de-Siècle Historians in the Courts
• 2. Time, Justice, and Human Rights: Statutory Limitation on the Right to Truth?
• 3. How Truth Recovery Can Benefit from a Conditional Amnesty
• 4. New Epistemologies for Confronting International Crimes: Developing the Information, Dialogue, and Process (IDP) Approach to Transitional Justice
• Part II: The narrative of the trial record
• 5. The Spark for Genocide? Propaganda and Historical Narratives at International Criminal Tribunals
• 6. The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical Source
• Part III: The afterlife of transitional justice processes
• 7. Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-Up Reflections on a Postcolonial Setting—The Rawagede Case
• 8. Collective and Competitive Victimhood as Identity in the Former Yugoslavia
• 9. Perpetrator-Victims: How Universal Victimhood in Cambodia Impacts Transitional Justice Measures
• 10. Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Contributors
• Index