Transitional justice and memory in Europe (1945-2013)
By: edited by Nico Wouters
Series: Series on Transitional Justice -- 17; Series on transitional justice -- v. 17.
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781780682143
Subjects: Transitional justice; Case studies; Administration of Criminal justice; History
Description: "What lessons can we learn from history, and more importantly: how? This question is as commonplace as it is essential. Efficient transitional justice policy evaluation requires, inter alia, an historical dimension. What policy has or has not worked in the past is an obvious key question. Nevertheless, history as a profession remains somewhat absent in the multi-disciplinary field of transitional justice. The idea that we should learn lessons from history continues to create unease among most professional historians. In his critical introduction, the editor investigates the framework of this unease. At the core of this book are nine national European case studies (post 1945, the 1970s dictatorships, post 1989) which implement the true scholarly advantage of historical research for the field of transitional justice: the broad temporal space. All nine case studies tackle the longer-term impact of their country's transitional justice policies. Two comparative conclusions, amongst others by the internationally renowned transitional justice specialist Luc Huyse, complete this collection. This volume is a major contribution in the search for synergies between the agenda of historical research and the rapidly developing field of transitional justice"-- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The use of history in the field of transitional justice : a critical introduction  -- Nico Wouters; title: West Germany : a case of transitional justice avant la lettre?  -- Annette Weinke; title: Changing things so everything stays the same : the impossible "épuration" of French society, 1945-2000  -- Marc Olivier Baruch; title: A consensus of differences : transitional justice and Belgium's divided war memories (1944-2012)  -- Nico Wouters and Dirk Luyten; title: Transitional justice in the Netherlands after World War II  -- Peter Romijn and Erik Schumacher; title: From ruptured transition to politics of silence : the case of Portugal  -- Filipa Raimundo and António Costa Pinto; title: Amnesty and reparations without truth or justice in Spain  -- Paloma Aguilar and Clara Ramírez-Barat; title: Transitional justice after the collapse of dictatorship in Greece (1974-2000)  -- Stefanos Katsikas; title: The incomplete transition in Hungary  -- Renáta Uitz; title: The Polish paradox : transition from and to democracy  -- Klaus Bachmann; title: Comparing transitional justice experiences in Europe  -- Luc Huyse; title: Transitional justice and memory development in Europe -- Nico Wouters.