Localizing transitional justice
Subtitle: interventions and priorities after mass violence
By: edited by Rosalind Shaw and Lars Waldorf, with Pierre Hazan.
Contributors: Shaw, Rosalind.; Waldorf, Lars.; Hazan, Pierre.
Series: Stanford studies in human rights; Stanford studies in human rights
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780804761499; 9780804761505
Subjects: Transitional justice; Human rights; Crimes against humanity
Description: Through war crimes prosecutions, truth commissions, purges of perpetrators, reparations, and memorials, transitional justice practices work under the assumptions that truth telling leads to reconciliation, prosecutions bring closure, and justice prevents the recurrence of violence. But when local responses to transitional justice destabilize these assumptions, the result can be a troubling disconnection between international norms and survivors' priorities. "Localizing Transitional Justice" traces how ordinary people respond to -- and sometimes transform --transitional justice mechanisms, laying a foundation for more locally responsive approaches to social reconstruction after mass violence and egregious human rights violations. Recasting understandings of culture and locality prevalent in international justice, this vital book explores the complex, unpredictable, and unequal encounter among international legal norms, transitional justice mechanisms, national agendas, and local priorities and practices. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : localizing transitional justice / Rosalind Shaw and Lars Waldorf; title: Stay the hand of justice : whose priorities take priority? / Harvey M. Weinstein, Laurel E. Fletcher, Patrick Vinck, and Phuong Pham; title: Transitional justice after September 11 : a new rapport with evil / Pierre Hazan; title: An acknowledged failure : women, voice, violence, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Fiona Ross; title: Histories of innocence : postwar stories in Peru / Kimberly Theidon; title: Linking justice with reintegration? : ex-combatants and the Sierra Leone experiment / Rosalind Shaw; title: Reconciliation grown bitter? : war, retribution, and ritual action in northern Uganda / Sverker Finnström; title: Silence and dialogue : Burundians' alternatives to transitional justice / Ann Nee and Peter Uvin; title: "Like Jews waiting for Jesus" : posthumous justice in post-genocide Rwanda / Lars Waldorf; title: Weaving a braid of histories : local post-armed conflict initiatives in Guatemala / Laura Arriaza and Naomi-Roht-Arriaza; title: Dealing with the past when the conflict is still present : civil society truth-seeking initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Ron Dudai and Hillel Cohen; title: Afterword : elevating transitional local justice or crystallizing global governance? / Moses Chrispus Okello.