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Author Buckley-Zistel, Susanne

Title Transitional Justice Theories
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (239 pages)
Contents 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
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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Subject Transitional justice.
Crimes against humanity.
Political crimes and offenses.
Crimes against humanity
Political crimes and offenses
Transitional justice
Form Electronic book
Author Koloma Beck, Teresa
Braun, Christian
Mieth, Friederike
ISBN 9781135055066
1135055068