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1 online resource (24 pages) |
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Policy research working paper ; 4191 |
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Post-conflict transitions working paper ; no. 5 |
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Post-conflict transitions working paper (Online) ; no. 5
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Policy research working papers (Online) ; 4191.
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No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This paper attempts to fill that void by building on a newly constructed dataset (Binningsbo, Elster, and Gates 2005), which reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict justice efforts (trials, purges, reparation to victims, and truth commissions) as well as processes associated with abstaining from post-conflict justice (amnesty and exile). It investigates the long-term effects of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace after conflict. It uses a Cox proportional hazard model to analyze the influence of the various types of post-conflict justice on the length of the peace period before the recurrence of violent conflict. Post-conflict trials as well as other types of justice do lead to a more durable peace in democratic as well as non-democratic societies, but the results are weak and are therefore difficult to generalize. Forms of non-retributive justice (that is, reparations to victims and truth commissions), however, are strongly associated with the duration of peace in democratic societies, but are not significant for non-democratic societies. Amnesty tends to be destabilizing and generally associated with shorter peace duration, but exile tends to lead to a more durable peace |
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Atrocities.
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Conflict and Development
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Peace and Peacekeeping
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Massacres.
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International Treaties
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International law.
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International Community
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Human rights.
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Fighting
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Deterrence
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Corruption and Anticorruption Law
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Social Development
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Social Conflict and Violence
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Post Conflict Reintegration
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Postwar reconstruction.
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Conflict
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Civil war.
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Compromise
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civil wars.
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Atrocities
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Civil war
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Human rights
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International law
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Massacres
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Postwar reconstruction
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Electronic book
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