The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged

Author:   Kjetil Tronvoll ,  Professor Charles Schaefer (Customer) ,  Girmachew Alemu Aneme ,  Bahru Zewde
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Publication Date:   19 March 2009
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Author:   Kjetil Tronvoll ,  Professor Charles Schaefer (Customer) ,  Girmachew Alemu Aneme ,  Bahru Zewde
Publisher:   James Currey
Imprint:   James Currey
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.230kg
ISBN:  

9781847013200


ISBN 10:   1847013201
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   19 March 2009
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Format:   Paperback
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Preface The Red Terror trials: the context of transitional justice in Ethiopia - Kjetil Tronvoll and Charles Schaefer and Girmachew Alemu Aneme The history of the Red Terror: contexts & consequences - Bahru Zewde The rights of the accused: a human rights appraisal - Frode Elsegem and Girmachew Alemu Aneme The role of the Special Prosecutor's Office - Sarah Vaughan The Red Terror trials versus traditions of restorative justice in Ethiopia - Charles Schaefer A quest for justice or the construction of political legitimacy?: The political anatomy of the Red Terror trials - Kjetil Tronvoll Building state & nation: justice, reconciliation & democratization in Ethiopia & South Africa - Elsa Van Huyssteen Beyond the Red Terror trials: analysing guarantees of non-repetition - Girmachew Alemu Aneme Concluding the main Red Terror trial: Special Prosecutor v. Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam et al. - Kjetil Tronvoll Concluding the main Red Terror trial: Special Prosecutor v. Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam et al. - Charles Schaefer Concluding the main Red Terror trial: Special Prosecutor v. Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam et al. - Girmachew Alemu Aneme

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This collection is an enlightening read. It provides the first comprehensive and detailed account of Ethiopia's Red Terror trials and will be of interest to scholars, academics and policy makers concerned with human rights, transitional justice, conflict and post-conflict resolution. AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN This collection is an enlightening read. It provides the first comprehensive and detailed account of Ethiopia's Red Terror trials and will be of interest to scholars, academics, activists and policy makers concerned with human rights issues, transitional justice, conflict and post-conflict reconstruction. LUCAS BULLETIN


A major contribution to the paltry transitional justice literature. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE * For shedding light on a process that has dwelt in inordinate obscurity, this volume is very valuable. It can deepen contemporary understandings of the dilemmas and opportunities presented by the assertion of jurisdiction for international crimes by the ravaged and war-torn states in which they occur. * INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW * Is bound to raise awareness of an otherwise ignored historic courtroom drama. [It is] a solid, luminous, and timely work, a must-read for all Ethiopianists, especially for human rights advocates and policy analysts. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHIOPIAN STUDIES * This collection is an enlightening read. It provides the first comprehensive and detailed account of Ethiopia's Red Terror trials and will be of interest to scholars, academics and policy makers concerned with human rights, transitional justice, conflict and post-conflict resolution. * AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN * This collection is an enlightening read. It provides the first comprehensive and detailed account of Ethiopia's Red Terror trials and will be of interest to scholars, academics, activists and policy makers concerned with human rights issues, transitional justice, conflict and post-conflict reconstruction. * LUCAS BULLETIN *


A major contribution to the paltry transitional justice literature. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE For shedding light on a process that has dwelt in inordinate obscurity, this volume is very valuable. It can deepen contemporary understandings of the dilemmas and opportunities presented by the assertion of jurisdiction for international crimes by the ravaged and war-torn states in which they occur. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW Is bound to raise awareness of an otherwise ignored historic courtroom drama. (It is) a solid, luminous, and timely work, a must-read for all Ethiopianists, especially for human rights advocates and policy analysts. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHIOPIAN STUDIES This collection is an enlightening read. It provides the first comprehensive and detailed account of Ethiopia's Red Terror trials and will be of interest to scholars, academics and policy makers concerned with human rights, transitional justice, conflict and post-conflict resolution. AFRICA


Is bound to raise awareness of an otherwise ignored historic courtroom drama. (It is) a solid, luminous, and timely work, a must-read for all Ethiopianists, especially for human rights advocates and policy analysts. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ETHIOPIAN STUDIES This collection is an enlightening read. It provides the first comprehensive and detailed account of Ethiopia's Red Terror trials and will be of interest to scholars, academics and policy makers concerned with human rights, transitional justice, conflict and post-conflict resolution. AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN This collection is an enlightening read. It provides the first comprehensive and detailed account of Ethiopia's Red Terror trials and will be of interest to scholars, academics, activists and policy makers concerned with human rights issues, transitional justice, conflict and post-conflict reconstruction. LUCAS BULLETIN


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KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes University College, Director of Oslo Analytica policy research and advisory company, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo. His books include, with Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea (2017). Chuck Schaefer is Professor of History & International Studies at Valparaiso University. He taught at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia from 1992 through 1994 as a Fulbright Lecturer. His books include co-editing The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged (2009). GIRMACHEW ALEMU ANEME is a Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. Bahru Zewde is Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University and founding Fellow and Vice President of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. He has authored many books and articles, notably A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974, Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century and The Quest for Socialist Utopia, finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize, 2015. Chuck Schaefer is Professor of History & International Studies at Valparaiso University. He taught at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia from 1992 through 1994 as a Fulbright Lecturer. His books include co-editing The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged (2009). GIRMACHEW ALEMU ANEME is a Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes University College, Director of Oslo Analytica policy research and advisory company, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo. His books include, with Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea (2017).

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