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Transitional justice : global mechanisms and local realities after genocide and mass violence / edited by Alexander Laban Hinton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Genocide, political violence, human rights seriesPublication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2011]Description: ix, 271 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0813550688
  • 9780813550688
  • 9780813547619
  • 081354761X
Other title:
  • Global mechanisms and local realities after genocide and mass violence
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JC571 .T73 2011
Contents:
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.
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"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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