Transitional justice : global mechanisms and local realities after genocide and mass violence
How do societies come to terms with the aftermath of genocide and mass violence, and how might the international community contribute to this process? This argues that, however well-intentioned, transitional justice needs to more deeply grapple with the complexities of global and transnational involvements and the local on-the-ground realities with which they intersect.
Print Book, English, [2011]
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, [2011]
ix, 271 pages ; 23 cm
9780813550688, 9780813547619, 0813550688, 081354761X
706029762
Introduction : toward an anthropology of transitional justice / Alexander Laban Hinton
Transitional frictions
Identifying Srebrenica's missing : the "shaky balance" of universalism and particularism / Sarah Wagner
The failure of international justice in East Timor and Indonesia / Elizabeth F. Drexler
Body of evidence : feminicide, local justice, and rule of law in "peacetime" Guatemala / Victoria Sanford and Martha Lincoln
Justice in the vernacular
(In)Justice : truth, reconciliation, and revenge in Rwanda's Gacaca / Jennie E. Burnet
Remembering genocide : hypocrisy and the violence of local/global "justice in Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey
Genocide, affirmative repair, and the British Columbia Treaty process / Andrew Woolford
Local justice and legal rights among the San and Bakgalagadi of the Central Kalahari, Botswana / Robert K. Hitchcock and Wayne A. Babchuk
Voice, truth, and narrative
Testimonies, truths, and transitions of justice in Argentina and Chile / Antonius C.G.M. Robben
Judging the "crimes of crimes": continuity and improvisation at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham
Building a monument : intimate politics of "reconciliation" in post-1965 Bali / Leslie Dwyer
Afterword : the consequences of transitional justice in particular contexts / Roger Duthie
"The origins of this project date back to a 2007 symposium, "Local Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Meanings in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity", held at Rutgers University-Newark"--Page ix
"A version of (In)Justice: truth, reconciliation, and revenge in Rwanda's Gacaca by Jennie E. Burnet was previously published as The injustice of local justice: truth, reconciliation, and revenge in Rwanda in Genocide studies and prevention 3, no. 2 (2008): 173-193"--Title page verso