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Localizing Transitional Justice: Interventions and Priorities After Mass Violence (Stanford Studies in Human Rights) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Localizing Transitional JusticeThis work critically examines standard assumptions of transitional justice through the lens of survivors' standpoints, and argues for more responsive and place-based approaches to social reconstruction after mass violence and egregious human rights violations.
Full description- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Published: 15 June 2010
- Format: Paperback 358 pages
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- Categories: Anthropology | Crime & Criminology | Human Rights | International Human Rights Law
- ISBN 13: 9780804761505 ISBN 10: 0804761507
- Sales rank: 229,214
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Full description for Localizing Transitional Justice
Through war crimes prosecutions, truth commissions, purges of perpetrators, reparations, and memorials, transitional justice practices work under the assumptions that truth telling leads to reconciliation, prosecutions bring closure, and justice prevents the recurrence of violence. But when local responses to transitional justice destabilize these assumptions, the result can be a troubling disconnection between international norms and survivors' priorities. "Localizing Transitional Justice" traces how ordinary people respond to--and sometimes transform--transitional justice mechanisms, laying a foundation for more locally responsive approaches to social reconstruction after mass violence and egregious human rights violations. Recasting understandings of culture and locality prevalent in international justice, this vital book explores the complex, unpredictable, and unequal encounter among international legal norms, transitional justice mechanisms, national agendas, and local priorities and practices.
