Judging state-sponsored violence, imagining political change
By: Bronwyn Anne Leebaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781107000582; 9780521169776
Description: "This book offers a new way to think about the legacies of the Nuremberg Trials and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which transformed the theory and practice of transitional justice"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: transitional justice and the 'gray zone'; 2. Human rights legalism and the legacy of Nuremberg; 3. A different kind of justice: South Africa's alternative to legalism; 4. Political judgment and transitional justice: actors and spectators; 5. Rethinking restorative justice; 6. Remembering resistance; 7. Conclusion: the shadows of the past.