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Explores how international assistance shapes transitional justice around the world, and asks how civil society can play a larger role in them.
List of contents
Introduction: changing contexts of international assistance to transitional justice Paige Arthur and Christalla Yakinthou; Part I. Understanding Cases: 1. From reconciliation to rule of law: the shifting landscape of international TJ assistance in Guatemala Anita Isaacs and Rachel Schwartz; 2. Fighting windmills, ignoring dragons: international assistance to civil society in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina Christalla Yakinthou; 3. Sending the wrong signal: international assistance and the decline of civil society action on TJ in Morocco Paige Arthur; 4. Off the agenda as Uganda moves towards development: Uganda's transitional justice process Tania Bernath; 5. Hybrid court, hybrid peacebuilding in Cambodia Laura McGrew; Part II. Conceptualizing the Connections: 6. Reframing friction: a four-lens framework for explaining shifts, fractures, and gaps in transitional justice Christalla Yakinthou; Why do donors choose to fund transitional justice? Paige Arthur; Conclusion: refocusing on civil society: how to make - not miss - connections Paige Arthur and Christalla Yakinthou.
About the author
Paige Arthur is Deputy Director of the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University. She is the editor of Identities in Transition: Challenges for Transitional Justice in Divided Societies (Cambridge, 2011).Christalla Yakinthou is a Birmingham fellow with the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security, and the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Political Settlements in Divided Societies (2009), and the co-editor of Conflict Management in Divided Societies: Theories and Practice (2011).
Summary
Transitional Justice, International Assistance, and Civil Society is for scholars, and for civil society, and government officials working on justice for victims of massive human rights abuse. It addresses how justice initiatives are decided upon, created, and funded - and argues that civil society should play a central role in these processes.
