Transitional justice / edited by Melissa S. Williams, Rosemary Nagy, and Jon Elster.

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340.115 345 22

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Contents:

Theorizing transitional justice / Pablo de Greiff -- Justice, truth, peace / Jon Elster -- Forms of transitional justice / Jeremy Webber -- Countering the wrongs of the past : the role of compensation / Debra Satz -- Reparations as rough justice / Adrian Vermeule -- Reparations as a noble lie / Gary J. Bass -- Leviathan as a theory of transitional justice / David Dyzenhaus -- Transitional prudence : a comment on David Dyzenhaus, Leviathan as a theory of transitional justice / Eric A. Posner -- What is non-ideal theory? / Gopal Sreenivasan -- When more may be less : transitional justice in East Timor / David Cohen and Leigh-Ashley Lipscomb -- Reconciliation, refugee returns, and the impact of international criminal justice : the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina / Monika Nalepa.

Summary: 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 extralegal 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 regi.

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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 extralegal 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 regi.

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