After Violence - Transitional Justice, Peace, and Democracy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99999
ISBN-13: 9781138020085
Subjects: Conflict management; Human rights
Description: "After Violence: Transitional Justice, Peace, and Democracy examines the effects of transitional justice on the development of peace and democracy. Anticipated contributions of transitional justice mechanisms are commonly stated in universal terms, with little regard for historically specific contexts. Yet a truth commission, for example, will not have the same function in a society torn by long-term civil war or genocide as in a society emerging from authoritarian repression. Addressing trials, reparations, truth commissions, and amnesties, the book systematically addresses the experiences of four very different contemporary transitional justice cases: post authoritarian Uruguay and Peru and post-conflict Rwanda and Angola."--Page [i].