Economic Actors And The Limits Of Transitional Justice

Author : Leigh A. Payne,Gabriel Pereira,Laura Bernal-Bermúdez
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0197267262

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Economic Actors and the Limits of Transitional Justice by Leigh A. Payne,Gabriel Pereira,Laura Bernal-Bermúdez Pdf

Business involvement in human rights violations has been part of the past, the present, and will likely continue in the future. A legacy of impunity has prevailed globally. Using case studies and original datasets, this volume seeks to understand how corporate accountability for human rights violations has been achieved and what barriers persist.

Author : Dustin N. Sharp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461481720

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Justice and Economic Violence in Transition by Dustin N. Sharp Pdf

​​​​This book examines the role of economic violence (violations of economic and social rights, corruption, and plunder of natural resources) within the transitional justice agenda. Because economic violence often leads to conflict, is perpetrated during conflict, and continues afterwards as a legacy of conflict, a greater focus on economic and social rights issues in the transitional justice context is critical. One might add that insofar as transitional justice is increasingly seen as an instrument of peacebuilding rather than a simple political transition, focus on economic violence as the crucial “root cause” is key to preventing re-lapse into conflict. Recent increasing attention to economic issues by academics and truth commissions suggest this may be slowly changing, and that economic and social rights may represent the “next frontier” of transitional justice concerns. There remain difficult questions that have yet to be worked out at the level of theory, policy, and practice. Further scholarship in this regard is both timely, and necessary. This volume therefore presents an opportunity to fill an important gap. The project will bring together new papers by recognized and emerging scholars and policy experts in the field.​

Author : Pádraig McAuliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : New democracies
ISBN : 1783470038

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Transformative Transitional Justice and the Malleability of Post-conflict States by Pádraig McAuliffe Pdf

'The rhetoric of transformation in transitional justice seems to be everywhere. Padraig McAuliffe takes this agenda down to its roots and exposes unproven or wishful assumptions that fail to connect with conditions in actual post-conflict settings. This bracing and powerful book, massively researched and tightly argued, throws down a gauntlet and defines an agenda for future research. McAuliffe's book is a singular and outstanding intervention in the transitional justice field.' - Margaret Urban Walker, Marquette University Despite the growing focus on issues of socio-economic transformation in contemporary transitional justice, the path dependencies imposed by the political economy of war-to-peace transitions and the limitations imposed by weak statehood are seldom considered. This book explores transitional justice's prospects for seeking economic justice and reform of structures of poverty in the specific context of post-conflict states. Systematic and timely, this book examines how the evolution of contemporary civil war, the modalities of peacemaking and peacebuilding, as well as the role of grassroots forms of justice, condition prospects for tackling the economic roots of conflict. It argues that discourse in the area focuses too much on the liberal commitments of interveners to the exclusion of understanding how interventionist impulses are compromised by the agency of local actors. Ultimately, the book illustrates that for transitional justice to become effective in transforming structures of injustice, it needs to acknowledge the salience of domestic political incentives and accumulation patterns. Transitional justice scholars will find this book indispensable as the first consideration of transitional justice and economic transformation from the perspective of the domestic political economy. Both peacebuilding and development specialists will also benefit from its wealth of lessons to be learned.

Author : Sandra Botero,Daniel M. Brinks,Ezequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009098342

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The Limits of Judicialization by Sandra Botero,Daniel M. Brinks,Ezequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos Pdf

Utilizing case studies of seven Latin American countries, this book reassesses the role of legal institutions in the politics of the region.

Author : Tricia D. Olsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009293266

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Seeking Justice by Tricia D. Olsen Pdf

Seeking Justice: Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse explores victims' varying experiences in seeking remedy mechanisms for corporate human rights abuse. It puts forward a novel theory about the possibility of productive contestation and explores governance outcomes for victims of corporate human rights abuse across Latin America. This foundation informs three pathways that victims can use to press for their rights: working within the institutional environment, capitalizing on corporate characteristics, and elevating voices. Seeking Justice challenges the common assumptions in the governance gap literature and argues, instead, that greater democratic practices can emerge from productive contestation. This book brings to bear tough questions about the trade-offs associated with economic growth and conflicting values around human dignity-questions that are very salient today, as citizens around the globe contemplate the type of democratic and economic systems that might better prepare us for tomorrow.

Author : Leigh A. Payne,Gabriel Pereira,Laura Bernal-Bermúdez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108474139

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Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below by Leigh A. Payne,Gabriel Pereira,Laura Bernal-Bermúdez Pdf

Examines when, where, why, and how corporate accountability for past human rights violations in armed conflicts and authoritarian regimes is possible.

Author : Frédéric Mégret,Philip Alston
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191544774

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The United Nations and Human Rights by Frédéric Mégret,Philip Alston Pdf

The very concept of human rights implies governmental accountability. To ensure that governments are indeed held accountable for their treatment of citizens and others the United Nations has established a wide range of mechanisms to monitor compliance, and to seek to prevent as well as respond to violations. The panoply of implementation measures that the UN has taken since 1945 has resulted in a diverse and complex set of institutional arrangements, the effectiveness of which varies widely. Indeed, there is much doubt as to the effectiveness of much of the UN's human rights efforts but also about what direction it should take. Inevitable instances of politicization and the hostile, or at best ambivalent, attitude of most governments, has at times endangered the fragile progress made on the more technical fronts. At the same time, technical efforts cannot dispense with the complex politics of actualizing the promise of human rights at and through the UN. In addition to significant actual and potential problems of duplication, overlapping and inconsistent approaches, there are major problems of under-funding and insufficient expertise. The complexity of these arrangements and the difficulty in evaluating their impact makes a comprehensive guide of the type provided here all the more indispensable. These essays critically examine the functions, procedures, and performance of each of the major UN organs dealing with human rights, including the Security Council and the International Court of Justice as well as the more specialized bodies monitoring the implementation of human rights treaties. Significant attention is devoted to the considerable efforts at reforming the UN's human rights machinery, as illustrated most notably by the creation of the Human Rights Council to replace the Commission on Human Rights. The book also looks at the relationship between the various bodies and the potential for major reforms and restructuring.

Author : Ruti G. Teitel,Baek Buhm-Suk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137534545

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Transitional Justice in Unified Korea by Ruti G. Teitel,Baek Buhm-Suk Pdf

How will a unified Korea respond to the Kim regime's crimes against humanity? Will North and South Korea be able to reconcile their differences after being divided for so long? Will China, the US, Japan, Russia, and U.N. drive the process? This book examines the challenges associated with Korean unification and human rights accountability.

Author : Pablo De Greiff,Roger Duthie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 097907729X

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Transitional Justice and Development by Pablo De Greiff,Roger Duthie Pdf

As developing societies emerge from legacies of conflict and authoritarianism, they are frequently beset by poverty, inequality, weak institutions, broken infrastructure, poor governance, insecurity, and low levels of social capital. These countries also tend to propagate massive human rights violations, which displace victims who are marginalized, handicapped, widowed, and orphaned--in other words, people with strong claims to justice. Those who work with others to address development and justice often fail to supply a coherent response to these concerns. The essays in this volume confront the intricacies--and interconnectedness--of transitional governance issues head on, mapping the relationship between two fields that, academically and in practice, have grown largely in isolation of one another. The result of a research project conducted by the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), this book explains how justice and recovery can be aligned not only in theory but also in practice, among both people and governments as they reform.

Author : Cécile Aptel,Virginie Ladisch,International Center for Transitional Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Children and war
ISBN : 1936064154

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Through a New Lens by Cécile Aptel,Virginie Ladisch,International Center for Transitional Justice Pdf

Author : Naomi Roht-Arriaza,Javier Mariezcurrena
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139458658

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Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century by Naomi Roht-Arriaza,Javier Mariezcurrena Pdf

Dealing with the aftermath of civil conflict or the fall of a repressive government continues to trouble countries throughout the world. Whereas much of the 1990s was occupied with debates concerning the relative merits of criminal prosecutions and truth commissions, by the end of the decade a consensus emerged that this either/or approach was inappropriate and unnecessary. A second generation of transitional justice experiences have stressed both truth and justice and recognize that a single method may inadequately serve societies rebuilding after conflict or dictatorship. Based on studies in ten countries, this book analyzes how some combine multiple institutions, others experiment with community-level initiatives that draw on traditional law and culture, whilst others combine internal actions with transnational or international ones. The authors argue that transitional justice efforts must also consider the challenges to legitimacy and local ownership emerging after external military intervention or occupation.

Author : Priscilla B. Hayner
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415924782

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Unspeakable Truths by Priscilla B. Hayner Pdf

In a sweeping review of forty truth commissions, Priscilla Hayner delivers a definitive exploration of the global experience in official truth-seeking after widespread atrocities. When Unspeakable Truths was first published in 2001, it quickly became a classic, helping to define the field of truth commissions and the broader arena of transitional justice. This second edition is fully updated and expanded, covering twenty new commissions formed in the last ten years, analyzing new trends, and offering detailed charts that assess the impact of truth commissions and provide comparative information not previously available. Placing the increasing number of truth commissions within the broader expansion in transitional justice, Unspeakable Truths surveys key developments and new thinking in reparations, international justice, healing from trauma, and other areas. The book challenges many widely-held assumptions, based on hundreds of interviews and a sweeping review of the literature. This book will help to define how these issues are addressed in the future.

Author : Pablo De Greiff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199545704

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The Handbook of Reparations by Pablo De Greiff Pdf

This is a comprehensive study of reparation programmes, containing a blend of case-study analysis, thematic papers and national legislation documents from leading scholars and practitioners.

Author : Kirsten J. Fisher,Robert Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135984816

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Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring by Kirsten J. Fisher,Robert Stewart Pdf

This book presents a varied and critical picture of how the Arab Spring demands a re-examination and re-conceptualization of issues of transitional justice. It demonstrates how unique features of this wave of revolutions and popular protests that have swept the Arab world since December 2010 give rise to distinctive concerns and problems relative to transitional justice. The contributors explore how these issues in turn add fresh perspective and nuance to the field more generally. In so doing, it explores fundamental questions of social justice, reconstruction and healing in the context of the Arab Spring. Including the perspectives of academics and practitioners, Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring will be of considerable interest to those working on the politics of the Middle East, normative political theory, transitional justice, international law, international relations and human rights.

Author : Padraig McAuliffe
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783470044

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Transformative Transitional Justice and the Malleability of Post-Conflict States by Padraig McAuliffe Pdf

Despite the growing focus on issues of socio-economic transformation in contemporary transitional justice, the path dependencies imposed by the political economy of war-to-peace transitions and the limitations imposed by weak statehood are seldom considered. This book explores transitional justice’s prospects for seeking economic justice and reform of structures of poverty in the specific context of post-conflict states.