Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka
Author: Bhavani Fonseka
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9789554746824
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Transitional Justice in the Asia-Pacific
Author: Renee Jeffery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 110704037X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to provide an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region.
Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice
Author: Rita Shackel
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 3319778900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings. This examination is especially important given the disappointing progress made to date in spite of concerted efforts over the last two decades. With contributions from both academics and practitioners working at national and international levels, this work integrates theory and practice, examining both global problems and highly contextual case studies including Kenya, Somalia, Peru, Afghanistan and DRC. The contributors aim to provide a comprehensive and compelling argument for the need to fundamentally rethink global approaches to gender justice.
In the Shadow of Transitional Justice
Author: Guy Elcheroth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781032128351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume bridges two different research fields and the current debates within them. On the one hand, the transitional justice literature has been shaken by powerful calls to make the doctrine and practice of justice more transformative. On the other hand, collective memory studies now tend to look more closely at meaningful silences to make sense of what nations leave out when they remember their pasts. The book extends the scope of this heuristic approach to the different mechanisms that come under the umbrella of transitional justice, including legal prosecution, truth-seeking and reparations, alongside memorialisation. The 15 chapters included in the volume, written by expert scholars from diverse disciplinary and societal backgrounds, explore a range of practices intended to deal with the past, and how making the invisible visible again can make transitional justice - or indeed, any societal engagement with the past - more transformative. Seeking to combine contextual depth and comparative width, the book features two key case analyses - South Africa and Sri Lanka - alongside discussions of multiple cases, including such emblematic sites as Rwanda and Argentina, but also sites better known for resisting than for embracing international norms of transitional justice, such as Turkey or Côte d'Ivoire. The different contributions, grouped in themed sections, progressively explore the issues, actors and resources that are typically forgotten when societies celebrate their pasts rather than mourning their losses and, in doing so, open new possibilities to build more inclusive processes for addressing the present consequences of past injustice.
Hypocrisy and Human Rights
Author: Kate Cronin-Furman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2022-11-15
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1501767151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHypocrisy and Human Rights examines what human rights pressure does when it does not work. Repressive states with absolutely no intention of complying with their human rights obligations often change course dramatically in response to international pressure. They create toothless commissions, permit but then obstruct international observers' visits, and pass showpiece legislation while simultaneously bolstering their repressive capacity. Covering debates over transitional justice in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and other countries, Kate Cronin-Furman investigates the diverse ways in which repressive states respond to calls for justice from human rights advocates, UN officials, and Western governments who add their voices to the victims of mass atrocities to demand accountability. She argues that although international pressure cannot elicit compliance in the absence of domestic motivations to comply, the complexity of the international system means that there are multiple audiences for both human rights behavior and advocacy and that pressure can produce valuable results through indirect paths.
Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice
Author: John Idriss Lahai
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 3319542028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women’s place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights institutions, and political institutions impact the lives and experiences of women. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume theorize and historicize the place of women’s rights (and gender), situating it within contemporary country-specific political, legal, socio-cultural and global contexts. Chapters examine the progress and challenges facing women (and women’s groups) in transitioning countries: from Peru to Argentina, from Kenya to Sierra Leone, and from Bosnia to Sri Lanka, in a variety of contexts, attending especially to the relationships between local and global forces
Transitional Justice and Forced Migration: Critical Perspectives from the Global South
Author: Nergis Canefe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-07
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1108422063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEstablishes links between lack of societal peace, structural causes of human suffering, recurrent patterns of political violence and forced migration in the Global South.
From Transitional to Transformative Justice
Author: Paul Gready
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-02-21
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1108668577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransitional justice has become the principle lens used by countries emerging from conflict and authoritarian rule to address the legacies of violence and serious human rights abuses. However, as transitional justice practice becomes more institutionalized with support from NGOs and funding from Western donors, questions have been raised about the long-term effectiveness of transitional justice mechanisms. Core elements of the paradigm have been subjected to sustained critique, yet there is much less commentary that goes beyond critique to set out, in a comprehensive fashion, what an alternative approach might look like. This volume discusses one such alternative, transformative justice, and positions this quest in the wider context of ongoing fall-out from the 2008 global economic and political crisis, as well as the failure of social justice advocates to respond with imagination and ambition. Drawing on diverse perspectives, contributors illustrate the wide-ranging purchase of transformative justice at both conceptual and empirical levels.
Transitional Justice in Balance
Author: Tricia D. Olsen
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781601270535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first project of its kind to compare multiple mechanisms and combinations of mechanisms across regions, countries, and time, Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy systematically analyzes the claims made in the literature using a vast array of data, which the authors have assembled in the Transitional Justice Data Base.
Justice as Prevention
Author: Pablo De Greiff
Publisher: SSRC
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 0979077214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCountries emerging from armed conflict or authoritarian rule face difficult questions about what to do with public employees who perpetrated past human rights abuses and the institutional structures that allowed such abuses to happen. Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies examines the transitional reform known as "vetting"-the process by which abusive or corrupt employees are excluded from public office. More than a means of punishing individuals, vetting represents an important transitional justice measure aimed at reforming institutions and preventing the recurrence of abuses. The book is the culmination of a multiyear project headed by the International Center for Transitional Justice that included human rights lawyers, experts on police and judicial reform, and scholars of transitional justice and reconciliation. It features case studies of Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, El Salvador, the former German Democratic Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, and South Africa, as well as chapters on due process, information management, and intersections between other institutional reforms.
