Transitional Justice in Latin America: The Uneven Road from Impunity Towards Accountability

ISBN-13: 9780815392927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 318 str.

Opis

This book addresses current developments in transitional justice in Latin America – effectively the first region to undergo concentrated transitional justice experiences in modern times, Using a comparative approach, it examines trajectories in truth, justice, reparations and amnesties in countries emerging from periods of massive violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The book examines the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, developing and applying a common analytical framework in order to provide a systematic, qualitative and comparative analysis of transitional justice processes. Offering a new basis for assessing transitional justice, and challenging many assumptions in the established literature, this book will be of enormous benefit to scholars and others working in this area.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: the accountability challenge Elin Skaar, Jemima García-Godos and Cath Collins  2. Analytical framework Elin Skaar, Cath Collins, and Jemima García-Godos  3. Argentina: regional protagonist of transitional justice Lorena Balardini  4. Uruguay: halfway towards accountability Francesca Lessa and Elin Skaar  5. Brazil: the tortuous path to truth and justice Glenda Mezarobba  6. Chile: incremental truth, late justice Cath Collins with Boris Hau  7. Paraguay: accountability in the shadow of Stroessner Cath Collins  8. El Salvador: the difficult fight against impunity Elena Martínez Barahona and Martha Liliana Gutiérrez Salazar  9. Guatemala: truth and memory on trial Jemima García-Godos and Luis Raúl Salvadó  10. Peru: beyond paradigmatic cases Jemima García-Godos and Félix Reátegui  11. Colombia: transitional justice before transition Nelson Camilo Sánchez León, Jemima García-Godos, and Catalina Vallejo  12. Conclusions: the uneven road towards accountability in Latin America, Elin Skaar, Cath Collins and Jemima García-Godos

O autorze

Elin Skaar is based at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway. Jemima Garcia-Godos is in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. Cath Collins is at the Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, and Universidad Diego Portales, Chile.