Transitional Justice Theories

ISBN-13: 9780415822107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 228 str.

Susanne Buckley Zistel; Teresa Koloma Beck; Christian Braun

Opis

Transitional Justice Theories is the first volume to approach the politically sensitive subject of post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice from a theoretical perspective. It combines contributions from distinguished scholars and practitioners as well as from emerging academics from different disciplines and provides an overview of conceptual approaches to the field. The volume seeks to refine our understanding of transitional justice by exploring often unarticulated assumptions that guide discourse and practice. To this end, it offers a wide selection of approaches from various theoretical traditions ranging from normative theory to critical theory. In their individual chapters, the authors explore the concept of transitional justice itself and its foundations, such as reconciliation, memory, and truth, as well as intersections, such as reparations, peace building, and norm compliance.

This book will be of particular interest for scholars and students of law, peace and conflict studies, and human rights studies. Even though highly theoretical, the chapters provide an easy read for a wide audience including readers not familiar with theoretical investigations.

Spis treści

Transitional Justice Theories: An Introduction  Part One: Theorizing Transitional Justice  Chapter 1 Transformative Justice, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding  Chapter 2 Rethinking Reconciliation in Divided Societies: A Social Learning Theory of Transitional Justice  Chapter 3 The Plural Justice Aims of Reparations  Chapter 4 Political Liberalism after Mass Violence: John Rawls and a ‘Theory’ of Transitional Justice  Chapter 5 The Vertical and Horizontal Expansion of Transitional Justice: Explanations and Implications for a Contested Field  Part Two Exploring the Limits of Transitional Justice  Chapter 6 Bargaining Justice: A Theory of Transitional Justice Compliance Chapter 7 Narrative Truths: On the Construction of the Past in Truth Commissions  Chapter 8 Redressive Politics and the Nexus of Trauma, Transitional Justice, and Reconciliation  Chapter 9 Forgetting the Embodied Past: Body Memory in Transitional Justice  Chapter 10 Understanding the Political Economy of Transitional Justice: A Critical Theory Perspective

O autorze

The editors are based at the Centre for Conflict Studies, at Philipps University, Marburg