Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement

ISBN-13: 9781107108769 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 192 str.

Jamie Rowen

Opis

This book re-imagines transitional justice as a movement, and explains why truth commissions are being promoted and created.

Recenzje

'The flexibility of legal concepts - intervention, transitional justice, and truth commissions - has spawned a loose movement of professionals who insert differing priorities into global justice. Rowen's remarkable research across multiple continents uncovers a paradoxical truth of transitional justice: the 'continuing appeal' of truth commissions despite 'disappointing outcomes'. These findings are bracing and important for scholars and practitioners of international justice and human rights.' Mark Fathi Massoud, author of Law's Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan

Spis treści

1. Searching for truth; 2. Building a transnational movement; 3. Disruption: a truth commission in Bosnia and Herzegovina; 4. Transformation: the politics of peace in Colombia; 5. Decoupled: transitional justice in the War on Terror; 6. The power of legal ideas.