Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement

Informationen zum Autor Jamie Rowen is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her doctorate from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a law degree from Berkeley School of Law. Dr Rowen's work has been published in the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Law and Social Inquiry, Human Rights Quarterly, and numerous other outlets. Klappentext This book re-imagines transitional justice as a movement, and explains why truth commissions are being promoted and created. Zusammenfassung This book re-imagines transitional justice as a movement! and explains why truth commissions are promoted and created. By exploring how the movement developed! as well as efforts to create truth commissions in the Balkans! Colombia! and the US! it examines the processes through which political actors translate transitional justice into political action. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Searching for truth; 2. Building a transnational movement; 3. Disruption: a truth commission in Bosnia and Herzegovina; 4. Transformation: the politics of peace in Colombia; 5. Decoupled: transitional justice in the War on Terror; 6. The power of legal ideas.

Product details

• Authors: Jamie Rowen, Jamie (University of Massachusetts Rowen, Jamie (University of Toronto) Rowen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2017
• EAN: 9781107519695
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51969-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, International human rights law