Overview

Criminal tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies and memorializations are the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice toolkit that can help societies transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from civil war to peace, and from state-sponsored extra-legal violence to a rights-respecting rule of law. Over the last several decades, their growing use has established transitional justice as a body of both theory and practice whose guiding norms and structures encompasses the range of institutional mechanisms by which societies address the wrongs committed by past regimes in order to lay the foundation for more legitimate political and legal order. In Transitional Justice, a group of leading scholars in philosophy, law, and political science settles some of the key theoretical debates over the meaning of transitional justice while opening up new ones. By engaging both theorists and empirical social scientists in debates over central categories of analysis in the study of transitional justice, it also illuminates the challenges of making strong empirical claims about the impact of transitional institutions. Contributors: Gary J. Bass, David Cohen, David Dyzenhaus, Pablo de Greiff, Leigh-Ashley Lipscomb, Monika Nalepa, Eric A. Posner, Debra Satz, Gopal Sreenivasan, Adrian Vermeule, and Jeremy Webber.

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Author:   Melissa S. Williams ,  Jon Elster ,  Rosemary Nagy ,  Rosemary Nagy
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Volume:   11
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780814794661

ISBN 10:   0814794661
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   28 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface Contributors Introduction 1. Theorizing Transitional Justice 2. Justice, Truth, Peace 3. Forms of Transitional Justice 4. Countering the Wrongs of the Past: The Role of Compensation 5. Reparations as Rough Justice 6. Reparations as a Noble Lie 7. Leviathan as a Theory of Transitional Justice 8. Transitional Prudence: A Comment on David Dyzenhaus, ""Leviathan as a Theory of Transitional Justice"" 9. What Is Non-Ideal Theory? 10. When More May Be Less: Transitional Justice in East Timor 11. Reconciliation, Refugee Returns, and the Impact of International Criminal Justice: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina Monika Nalepa Index"

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Melissa S. Williams is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Voice, Trust, and Memory and is the current editor of the NOMOS series. Jon Elster is Professor of Rationalité et sciences sociales at College de France, and Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University. He is author of Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective. Rosemary Nagy is Assistant Professor of Gender Equality and Social Justice at Nipissing University in Ontario, Canada.

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