Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change

Informationen zum Autor Dr Bronwyn Leebaw is currently an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of California, Riverside. She has received funding from institutions such as the Hewlett Foundation, the Institute for the Study of World Politics and the Mellon Foundation. Her interest in transitional justice, restorative justice and human rights has led her to South Africa, Bosnia-Herzegovina and The Hague, Netherlands. Leebaw has published several articles on these topics in journals such as Perspectives on Politics, Human Rights Quarterly and Polity. Klappentext Offers a new way to think about the legacies of two institutions - the Nuremberg Trials and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Zusammenfassung This book offers a new way to think about the legacies of two institutions! the Nuremberg Trials and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission! that transformed the theory and practice of transitional justice. It argues that transitional justice requires political judgment and strategies for investigating forms of complicity and resistance. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: transitional justice and the 'gray zone'; 2. Human rights legalism and the legacy of Nuremberg; 3. A different kind of justice: South Africa's alternative to legalism; 4. Political judgment and transitional justice: actors and spectators; 5. Rethinking restorative justice; 6. Remembering resistance; 7. Conclusion: the shadows of the past.

Product details

• Authors: Bronwyn Leebaw, Bronwyn (University of California Leebaw, Bronwyn Anne Leebaw, Leebaw Bronwyn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2011
• EAN: 9781107000582
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00058-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Law, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Criminal law & procedure, Politics & government, International humanitarian law, Criminal justice law, Law and society, sociology of law