Transitional justice and peacebuilding on the ground
Subtitle: victims and ex-combatants
By: edited by Chandra Lekha Sriram, Jemima Garcia-Godos, Johanna Herman and Olga Martin-Ortega
Series: Law, conflict and international relations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415637596; 9780203084359
Subjects: Transitional justice; Veterans; War victims; Legal status, laws; Peace-building
Description: "Seeks to refine our understanding of transitional justice and peacebuilding, and long-term security and reintegration challenges after violent conflicts. As recent events following political change during the so-called 'Arab Spring' demonstrate, demands for accountability often follow or attend conflict and and political transition. While traditionally much literature and many practitioners highlighted tensions between peacebuilding and justice, recent research and practice demonstrate a turn away from the supposed 'peace vs justice' dilemma.This volume examines the complex relationship between peacebuilding and transitional justice through the lens of the increased emphasis on victim-centered approaches to justice and the widespread practices of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants. While recent volumes have sought to address either DDR or victim-centered approaches to justice, none has sought to make connections between the two, much less to place them in the larger context of the increasing linkages between transitional justice and peacebuilding"--P. [i].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bridging the gap : the United Nations peacebuilding commission and the challenges of integrating DDR and transitional justice / Dustin Sharp; title: Transitional justice and ongoing conflicts / Par Engstrom; title: Just peace? : integrating DDR and transitional justice / Lars Waldorf; title: Centralizing legal pluralism? : traditional justice in transitional contexts / Rosemary Nagy; title: Peacebuilding and transitional justice in Cambodia : attempts at DDR and the rise of victim-centred justice / Johanna Herman; title: Unfinished business : peacebuilding, accountability, and rule of law in Lebanon / Chandra Lekha Sriram; title: Building peace and delivering justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina : the limits of externally driven processes / Olga Martin-Ortega; title: Victim-centred justice and DDR in Sierra Leone / Chandra Lekha Sriram; title: Tempering great expectations : peacebuilding and transitional justice in Liberia / Rosalind Raddatz; title: The supposed accountability/peacebuilding dilemma in Uganda / Joanna R. Quinn; title: Colombia : accountability and DDR in the pursuit of peace? / Jemima García-Godos; title: The national accord, impunity and the fragile peace in Kenya / Stephen Brown.