Rethinking Reconciliation and Transitional Justice After Conflict

List of contents

Introduction: Rethinking reconciliation and transitional justice after conflict 1. Agency versus structure in reconciliation 2. Decolonization as reconciliation: rethinking the national conflict paradigm in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 3. Transitional justice and political order in Rwanda 4. Norm contestation and reconciliation: evidence from a regional transitional justice process in the Balkans 5. Implementing transformative justice: survivors and ex-combatants at the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación in Peru 6. Looking beyond the state: transitional justice and the Kurdish issue in Turkey 7. Towards transitional justice? Black reparations and the end of mass incarceration 8. Race, reconciliation, and justice in Australia: from denial to acknowledgment

About the author

James Hughes is a Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics & Political Science, UK.
Denisa Kostovicova is an Associate Professor of Global Politics in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her research interests include transitional justice and post-conflict reconstruction. She is the author of Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (2005).

Summary

This book provides a critical examination of the field of transitional justice and reconciliation and of the normative claims that underpin it. It is a comparative empirical examination of how ethnic, ideological, racial and structural divisions shape and constrain moving beyond conflict. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Product details

• Authors: James (London School of Economics Hughes, James Kostovicova Hughes
• Assisted by: James Hughes (Editor), Denisa Kostovicova (Editor), Kostovicova Denisa (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138361997
• ISBN: 978-1-138-36199-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies; Ethnic & Racial Studies; Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution