Reconceiving Civil Society And Transitional Justice

Author : Joanne Wallis,Lia Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000061352

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Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice by Joanne Wallis,Lia Kent Pdf

Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice examines the role of civil society in transitional justice, exploring the forms of civil society that are enabled or disabled by transitional justice processes and the forms of transitional justice activity that are enabled and disabled by civil society actors. Although civil society organisations play an integral role in the pursuit of transitional justice in conflict-affected societies, the literature lacks a comprehensive conceptualisation of the diversity and complexity of these roles. This reflects the degree to which dominant approaches to transitional justice focus on liberal-legal justice strategies and international human rights norms. In this context, civil society organisations are perceived as intermediaries who are thought to advocate for and support formal, liberal transitional justice processes. The contributions to this volume demonstrate that the reality is more complicated; civil society can – and does – play important roles in enabling formal transitional justice processes, but it can also disrupt them. Informed by detailed fieldwork across Asia and the Pacific Islands, the contributions demonstrate that neither transitional justice or civil society should be treated as taken-for-granted concepts. Demonstrating that neither transitional justice or civil society should be treated as taken-for-granted concepts, Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice will be of great interest to scholars of Security Studies, Asian Studies, Peacebuilding, Asia Pacific, Human Rights, Reconciliation and the Politics of Memory. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Global Change, Peace & Security.

Author : Selbi Durdiyeva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000935813

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The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice by Selbi Durdiyeva Pdf

This book examines how civil society engages with transitional justice in Russia, demonstrating a broad range of roles civil society can undertake while operating in a restrictive political context. Based on sociolegal research, the study focuses on three types of civil society groups dealing with the legacies of the Soviet repression in Russia – a prominent organisation that works on recovering historical truth, the International Memorial; a parish of the Orthodox Church of Russia operating at a former mass execution and mass burial site, the Church at Butovo; and contentious groups that could hinder attempts at reckoning and promote state narratives built on the Stalinist and WWII victory myths. This book explores an often-overlooked case of Russia’s transitional justice ‘from below.’ It provides insights into how even in authoritarian contexts, civil society can adopt imaginative, piecemeal, and at times unconventional ways of seeking justice outside and in the absence of official and institutionalised transitional justice measures. This book will appeal to scholars of transitional justice, memory studies, human rights, and democratic and civil society theory, as well as policymakers and practitioners in these fields, and others with interests in Russian and post-Soviet studies.

Author : Paige Arthur,Christalla Yakinthou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316617726

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Transitional Justice, International Assistance, and Civil Society by Paige Arthur,Christalla Yakinthou Pdf

In recent years, transitional justice has become increasingly international in its scope. Due to ongoing animosities, lack of political will, and the absence of credible governing or judicial institutions, international organizations, donors, and NGOs advocate for transitional justice initiatives like truth commissions or special tribunals - alongside national actors, like civil society and victims groups. This book examines how international assistance affects transitional justice, and where power truly lies in making decisions about justice for victims of massive human rights abuse. The book finds that government donors typically lack strategies for transitional justice, they struggle with information deficits, and they are constrained by short-term approaches that do not give enough attention to what is often a weak and divided civil society sector. All the authors have both practical and scholarly perspectives on transitional justice. Country case studies are provided, including descriptions of the challenges in developing data on transitional justice financing.

Author : Jasmina Brankovic,Hugo van der Merwe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319704173

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Advocating Transitional Justice in Africa by Jasmina Brankovic,Hugo van der Merwe Pdf

This edited volume examines the role of local civil society in shaping understandings and processes of transitional justice in Africa – a nursery of transitional justice ideas for well over two decades. It brings together practitioners and scholars with intimate knowledge of these processes to evaluate the agendas and strategies of local civil society, and offers an opportunity to reflect on ‘lessons learnt’ along the way. The contributors focus on the evolution and effectiveness of transitional justice interventions, providing a glimpse into the motivations and inner workings of major civil society actors. The book presents an African perspective on transitional justice through a compilation of country-specific and thematic analyses of agenda setting and lobbying efforts. It offers insights into state–civil society relations on the continent, which shape these agendas. The chapters present case studies from Southern, Central, East, West and North Africa, and a range of moments and types of transition. In addition to historical perspective, the chapters provide fresh and up-to- date analyses of ongoing transitional justice efforts that are key to defining the future of how the field is understood globally, in theory and in practice Endorsements: "This great volume of written work – Advocating Transitional Justice in Africa: The Role of Civil Society – does what virtually no other labor of the intellect has done heretofore. Authored by movement activists and thinkers in the fields of human rights and transitional justice, the volume wrestles with the complex place and roles of transitional justice in the project of societal reconstruction in Africa. ... This volume will serve as a timely and thought-provoking guide for activists, thinkers, and policy makers – as well as students of transitional justice – interested in the tension between the universal and the particular in the arduous struggle for liberation. Often, civil society actors in Africa have been accused of consuming the ideas of others, but not producing enough, if any, of their own. This volume makes clear the spuriousness of this claim and firmly plants an African flag in the field of ideas." Makau Mutua

Author : Louise Mallinder,Kieran McEvoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 041571995X

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Transitional Justice by Louise Mallinder,Kieran McEvoy Pdf

"Scholars and practitioners working in 'transitional justice' are concerned with remedies of accountability and redress in the aftermath of conflict and state repression. Transitional justice, it is argued, provides recognition of the rights of victims, promotes civic trust, and strengthens the democratic rule of law ... The collection covers themes such as: truth and history; acknowledgement, reconciliation, and forgiveness; retribution, restorative justice and reparations; and democracy, state-building, identity, and civil society."--

Author : Padraig McAuliffe
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 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.

Author : Jasmina Brankovic,Hugo Van der Merwe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Transitional justice
ISBN : 3319704168

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Advocating Transitional Justice in Africa by Jasmina Brankovic,Hugo Van der Merwe Pdf

This volume documents and analyses the strategies used by African civil society organisations to lobby for and enact transitional justice measures in their countries. The book offers local practitioners and African scholars space to reflect on the development and effectiveness of strategies in promoting transitional justice, as well as to identify the theoretical and contextual influences on transitional justice work. Most importantly, it presents lessons and best practices for advocating transitional justice. This edited volume fills a significant gap by providing an up-to-date regional African perspective on transitional justice in the form of a compilation of country-specific and thematic analyses of agenda-setting and lobbying efforts. It also offers insights into the state-civil society relationship on the continent. While including some historical perspective, the book chapters provide fresh and up-to-date insights into ongoing transitional justice efforts that are key to defining the future of how the field is understood in theory and in practice.--Provided by publisher.

Author : Tazreena Sajjad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135982010

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Transitional Justice in South Asia by Tazreena Sajjad Pdf

Offering a comparative case study of transitional justice processes in Afghanistan and Nepal, this book critically evaluates the way the "local" is consulted in post-conflict efforts toward peace and reconciliation. It argues that there is a tendency in transitional justice efforts to contain the discussion of the "local" within religious and cultural parameters, thus engaging only with a "static local," as interpreted by certain local stakeholders. Based on data collected through interviews and participant observation carried out in the civil societies of the respective countries, this book brings attention to a "dynamic local," where societal norms evolve, and realities on the ground are shaped by shifting power dynamics, local hierarchies, and inequalities between actors. It suggests that the "local" must be understood as an inter-subjective concept, the meaning of which is not only an evolving and moving target, but also dependent on who is consulted to interpret it to external actors. This timely book engages with the divergent range of civil society voices and offers ways to move forward by including their concerns in the efforts to help impoverished war-torn societies transition from a state of war to the conditions of peace.

Author : Hugo Van der Merwe,Victoria Baxter,Audrey R. Chapman
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781601270368

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Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice by Hugo Van der Merwe,Victoria Baxter,Audrey R. Chapman Pdf

In Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice, fourteen leading researchers study seventy countries that have suffered from autocratic rule, genocide, and protracted internal conflict.

Author : Joanna R. Quinn
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780773576735

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Reconciliation(s) by Joanna R. Quinn Pdf

Reconciliation(s) considers the definition of the concept of reconciliation itself, focusing on the definitional dialogue that arises from the attempts to situate reconciliation within a theoretical and analytical framework. Contributing authors champion competing definitions, but all agree that it plays an important role in building relationships of trust and cohesion. The essays in this book also consider the nature and utility of reconciliation in a number of contexts, evaluating both its function and efficacy.

Author : Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000761986

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Transitional Justice from State to Civil Society by Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem Pdf

This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of transitional justice as an unfinished agenda in Indonesia’s democracy. Examining the implementation of transitional justice measures in post-authoritarian Indonesia, this book analyses the factors within the democratic transition that either facilitated or hindered the adoption and implementation of transitional justice measures. Furthermore, it contributes key insights from an extensive examination of ‘bottom-up’ approaches to transitional justice in Indonesia: through a range of case studies, civil society-led initiatives to truth-seeking and local reconciliation efforts. Based on extensive archival, legal and media research, as well as interviews with key actors in Indonesia’s democracy and human rights’ institutions, the book provides a significant contribution to current understandings of Indonesia’s democracy. Its analysis of the failure of state-centred transitional justice measures, and the role of civil society, also makes an important addition to comparative transitional justice studies. It will be of considerable interest to scholars and activists in the fields of Transitional Justice and Politics, as well as in Asian Studies.

Author : Elin Skaar,Camila Gianella Malca,Trine Eide
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317696902

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After Violence by Elin Skaar,Camila Gianella Malca,Trine Eide Pdf

After Violence: Transitional Justice, Peace, and Democracy examines the effects of transitional justice on the development of peace and democracy. Anticipated contributions of transitional justice mechanisms are commonly stated in universal terms, with little regard for historically specific contexts. Yet a truth commission, for example, will not have the same function in a society torn by long-term civil war or genocide as in a society emerging from authoritarian repression. Addressing trials, reparations, truth commissions, and amnesties, the book systematically addresses the experiences of four very different contemporary transitional justice cases: post-authoritarian Uruguay and Peru and post-conflict Rwanda and Angola. Its analysis demonstrates that context is a crucial determinant of the impact of transitional justice processes, and identifies specific contextual obstacles and limitations to these processes. The book will be of much interest to scholars in the fields of transitional justice and peacebuilding, as well as students generally concerned with human rights and democratisation.

Author : Briony Jones,Julie Bernath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351855839

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Resistance and Transitional Justice by Briony Jones,Julie Bernath Pdf

Despite a more reflective concern over the past 20 years with marginalised voices, justice from below, power relations and the legitimacy of mechanisms and processes, scholarship on transitional justice has remained relatively silent on the question of ‘resistance’. In response, this book asks what can be learnt by engaging with resistance to transitional justice not just as a problem of process, but as a necessary element of transitional justice. Drawing on literatures about resistance from geography and anthropology, it is the social act of labelling resistance, along with its subjective nature, that is addressed here as part of the political, economic, social and cultural contexts in which transitional justice processes unfold. Working through three cases – Côte d’Ivoire, Burundi and Cambodia – each chapter of the book addresses a different form or meaning of resistance, from the vantage point of multiple actors. As such, each chapter adds a different element to an overall argument that disrupts the norm/deviancy dichotomy that has so far characterised the limited work on resistance and transitional justice. Together, the chapters of the book develop cross-cutting themes that elaborate an overall argument for considering resistance to transitional justice as a subjective element of a political process, rather than as a problem of implementation.

Author : David A. Crocker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1049678223

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Transitional Justice and International Civil Society by David A. Crocker Pdf

Author : Joanna R. Quinn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812253160

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Thin Sympathy by Joanna R. Quinn Pdf

In helping deeply divided societies come to terms with a troubled past, transitional justice often fails to produce the intended results. Thin Sympathy argues that the acquisition of a basic understanding of what has taken place in the past will enable the development of a more durable transitional justice process.