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Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice

Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling. Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ, United States
Published: 22nd Jun 2018
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 18mm
Weight: 492g
ISBN-10: 0813597773
ISBN-13: 9780813597775
Barcode No: 9780813597775
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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.

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"Bringing together some of the most notable voices in the field, this volume moves away from the often narrow focus of other treatments of transitional justice-situating and evaluating the effect of accountability mechanisms within a larger social, cultural, and political context." -- Ronald Slye * coauthor of International Criminal Law and Its Enforcement * "This rich and interesting volume goes beyond the legal understanding of Transitional Justice in order to address the challenge of post-conflict societies. A valuable and important contribution to the current literature." -- Elazar Barkan * Columbia University * "Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education * "With an extraordinary and impressively informative body of seminal scholarship by experts in the subject of transitional justice that is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, social activists, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice is also available in a paperback edition and in a digital book format." * Midwest Book Review *