Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Transitional justice theories: An introduction; PART I Theorising transitional justice; 1 Transformative justice, reconciliation and peacebuilding; 2 Rethinking reconciliation in divided societies: A social learning theory of transitional justice; 3 The plural justice aims of reparations; 4 Political liberalism after mass violence: John Rawls and a 'theory' of transitional justice |
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5 The vertical and horizontal expansion of transitional justice: Explanations and implications for a contested fieldPART II Exploring the limits of transitional justice; 6 Bargaining justice: A theory of transitional justice compliance; 7 Narrative truths: On the construction of the past in truth commissions; 8 Redressive politics and the nexus of trauma, transitional justice and reconciliation; 9 Forgetting the embodied past: Body memory in transitional justice; 10 Understanding the political economy of transitional justice: A critical theory perspective; Index |
Summary |
Transitional Justice Theories is the first volume to approach the politically sensitive subject of post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice from a theoretical perspective. It combines contributions from distinguished scholars and practitioners as well as from emerging academics from different disciplines and provides an overview of conceptual approaches to the field. The volume seeks to refine our understanding of transitional justice by exploring often unarticulated assumptions that guide discourse and practice. To this end, it offers a wide selection of approaches from various theoretical |
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Print version record |
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Transitional justice.
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Crimes against humanity.
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Political crimes and offenses.
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Crimes against humanity
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Political crimes and offenses
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Transitional justice
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Electronic book
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Author |
Koloma Beck, Teresa
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Braun, Christian
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Mieth, Friederike
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ISBN |
9781135055066 |
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1135055068 |
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