Transitional justice
Subtitle: handbook for Latin America
By: Félix Reátegui, editor ; translation, Maria Carolina Carter, Maria E. Robbins
Contributors: International Center for Transitional Justice; Brazil. Ministério da Justiça. Comissão de Anistia; Agência Brasileira de Cooperação; PNUD Brasil
Publisher: ABC-Agência Brasileira de Cooperação; PNUD Brasil; Comissão de Anistia, Ministério da Justiça, Governo Federal; ICTJ
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Brasília; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 539
ISBN-13: 9788585820114
Subjects: Transitional justice; Amnesty; Human rights
Work titles: Justiça de transição. English
Notes: "This volume is part of the BRA/08/021 project--a cooperative effort of international exchange, policy development and expansion of Transitional Justice in Brazil by the Amnesty Commission of the Ministry of Justice, the Brazilian Cooperation Agency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme, and was developed collaboratively with the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICT), being simultaneously published in English, Portuguese and Spanish"--Page 7.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Promoting transitional justice in post-conflict societies / Paul van Zyl; title: How "transitions" reshape human rights : a conceptual history of transitional justice / Paige Arthur; title: Transitional justice genealogy / Ruti Teitel; title: The need for moral reconstruction in the wake of past human rights violations : an interview with José Zalaquett / Naomi Roht-Arriaza; title: Accountability for past abuses / Juan E. Méndez; title: Reflections on international humanitarian law and transitional justice : lessons to be learnt from the Latin American experience / Elizabeth Salmón; title: Amnesty laws / Santiago Canton; title: The path to prosecutions : a look at the Chilean case / Pamela Pereira; title: Challenging impunity in domestic courts : human rights prosecutions in Latin America / Jo-Marie Burt; title: Where are truth commissions headed? / Eduardo González Cueva; title: The victims remember : notes on the social practice of memory / Félix Reátegui; title: The world of archives / Ludmila da Silva Catela; title: Justice and reparations / Pablo de Greiff; title: Reparation programs for mass violations of human rights : lessons from experiences in Argentina, Chile and Peru / Cristián Correa; title: The reparations program as the lynchpin of transitional justice in Brazil / Paulo Abrão & Marcelo D. Torelly; title: A complementary relationship : reparations and development / Naomi Roht-Arriaza & Katharine Orlovsky.