Transitional Justice in the Asia-Pacific

This is the first book to provide an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region.

List of contents

Introduction: new horizons: transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific Renee Jeffery and Hun Joon Kim; 1. Transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific: comparative and theoretical perspectives Leigh A. Payne and Kathryn Sikkink; 2. Sri Lanka: atrocities, accountability, and the decline of rule of law Chandra Lekha Sriram; 3. Transitional justice delayed in Aceh, Indonesia Edward Aspinall and Fajran Zain; 4. Transitional justice in Cambodia: the coincidence of power and principle Kirsten Ainley; 5. Beyond 'pragmatism' versus 'principle': ongoing justice debates in East Timor Lia Kent; 6. Reconciliation and the rule of law in the Solomon Islands Renee Jeffery; 7. Transitional justice in South Korea Hun Joon Kim.

About the author

Renee Jeffery is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University. She is the author of The Persistence of Amnesties in World Politics (2014), Reason and Emotion in International Ethics (2014), Evil and International Relations: Human Suffering in an Age of Terror (2008) and Hugo Grotius in International Thought (2006), and the editor of Confronting Evil in International Relations: Ethical Responses to Problems of Moral Agency (2008).Hun Joon Kim is a Senior Research Fellow at Griffith University. His PhD dissertation, 'Expansion of Transitional Justice Measures: A Comparative Analysis of its Causes', was selected as the winner of the 2009 American Political Science Association Best Dissertation Award (Human Rights Section). He is the author of The Massacres at Mt Halla: Sixty Years of Truth-Seeking in South Korea (2014).

Summary

Drawing together the world's leading experts on transitional justice with Asia-Pacific regional and country specialists, this is the first book to explore the processes and practices of transitional justice in the region along with detailed analysis of the cases of Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Aceh, Indonesia, South Korea, the Solomon Islands and East Timor.

Product details

• Authors: Renee Jeffery & Hun Joon Kim, Renaee Jeffery, Rene Jeffery, Renée Jeffery, Renee (Australian National University Jeffery, Renee Kim Jeffery
• Assisted by: Renee Jeffery (Editor), Renée Jeffery (Editor), Renee (Australian National University Jeffery (Editor), Hun Joon Kim (Editor), Hun Joon (Griffith University Kim (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2013
• EAN: 9781107040373
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04037-3
• No. of pages: 311
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Law, Human Rights, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Public international law: criminal law, International humanitarian law, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, International human rights law