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Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice
Crimes, Courts, Commissions, and Chronicling
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Edited by:
Nanci Adler
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With contributions by:
Nanci Adler
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
NANCI ADLER is professor of memory, history, and transitional justice at the University of Amsterdam and program director of genocide studies at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). She is the author of numerous titles, including Keeping Faith with the Party: Communist Believers Return from the Gulag.
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"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“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"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
— Chronicle of Higher Education
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Introduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice
1 - Part I: The complex relationship between truth and justice
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1. Swinging the Pendulum: Fin-de-Siècle Historians in the Courts
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2. Time, Justice, and Human Rights: Statutory Limitation on the Right to Truth?
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3. How Truth Recovery Can Benefit from a Conditional Amnesty
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4. New Epistemologies for Confronting International Crimes: Developing the Information, Dialogue, and Process (IDP) Approach to Transitional Justice
75 - Part II: The narrative of the trial record
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5. The Spark for Genocide? Propaganda and Historical Narratives at International Criminal Tribunals
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6. The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical Source
118 - Part III: The afterlife of transitional justice processes
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7. Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-Up Reflections on a Postcolonial Setting—The Rawagede Case
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8. Collective and Competitive Victimhood as Identity in the Former Yugoslavia
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9. Perpetrator-Victims: How Universal Victimhood in Cambodia Impacts Transitional Justice Measures
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10. Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh
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Acknowledgments
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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September 2, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780813597805
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Keywords for this book
transnational; justice; transnational justice; global; human rights; history; criminal; court; legal; truth; restitution; trauma; genocide; political violence; Genocide studies; political science; political efficacy; justice mechanisms; violent pasts; new perspective; oppression; repression; post-authoritarian; historical injustices; Politics; Foreign affairs; law; international criminal tribunals; trials; truth commissions; conditional amnesty; epistemologies; propaganda; reparations; victimhood; identity; collective crimes; collective memories
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
