Navigating Local Transitional Justice - Agency At Work in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

Informationen zum Autor Laura S. Martin is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham and an affiliate at the University of Makeni, Sierra Leone. She has conducted research in Sierra Leone for over ten years and, in 2021, was Co-Investigator on an AHRC project entitled 'Performing Arts and Social Violence'. She has been published in numerous journals including Cooperation and Conflict and Third World Quarterly. Klappentext "Highlights the agency of local people in enabling transitional justice in post-conflict Sierra Leone. Moving past questions of institutional effectiveness, Laura S. Martin explores the diversity of post-conflict experiences and shows how individuals and communities enact justice on their own terms"-- Vorwort Examines local transitional justice processes in post-conflict Sierra Leone to explain how these programs work in practice. Zusammenfassung Highlights the agency of local people in enabling transitional justice in post-conflict Sierra Leone. Moving past questions of institutional effectiveness, Laura S. Martin explores the diversity of post-conflict experiences and shows how individuals and communities enact justice on their own terms. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps; Acknowledgements; 1. Agency in times of transitional justice: recognized and unrecognized mechanisms 'at work'; 2. Navigating violence, peace and justice: conflict and post-conflict experiences in Sierra Leone; 3. Deconstructing Fambul Tok's discourse and practice: the local, ownership and participation; 4. Participant experiences with Fambul Tok's program: interpretation, appropriation, agency; 5. Unrecognized mechanisms, normality and everyday realities in transition; 6. Activating justice; Appendix A. Informant interview list; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Laura S. Martin, Laura S. (University of Nottingham) Martin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781009281010
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0928101-0
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: African Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Human Rights, Sierra Leone, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, HISTORY / Africa / West, Legal History, African History, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies