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Rethinking Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Lessons from Sierra Leone
Rethinking Reconciliation
Evaluating Transitional Justice
Author: K. Ainley
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-02-16
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 113746822X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This major study examines the successes and failures of the full transitional justice programme in Sierra Leone. It sets out the implications of the Sierra Leonean experience for other post-conflict situations and for the broader project of evaluating transitional justice.
Truth Commissions
Author: Onur Bakiner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-01-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0812247620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Onur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting political, judicial, and social change. He argues that even when commissions produce modest change as a result of political constraints, they open new avenues for human rights activism and transform public discourses on memory, truth, justice, and reconciliation.
The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on
Author: Mia Swart
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-08-07
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9004339566
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on is an interdisciplinary collection that celebrates and critiques the work of the TRC after 20 years. The authors consider whether the TRC has continued relevance for South Africa. The book further explores the legacy of the ‘unfinished business’ of the TRC.
An Introduction to Transitional Justice
Author: Olivera Simić
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-11-25
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1317373774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An Introduction to Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive overview of transitional justice judicial and non-judicial measures implemented by societies to redress legacies of massive human rights abuse. Written by some of the leading experts in the field it takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the subject, addressing the dominant transitional justice mechanisms as well as key themes and challenges faced by scholars and practitioners. Using a wide historic and geographic range of case studies to illustrate key concepts and debates, and featuring discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, this is an essential introduction to the subject for students.
Rethinking Reconciliation
Author: Kate Lefko-Everett
Publisher: HSRC Publishers
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780796925541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book brings together leading social scientists and researchers to critically interrogate the success of the reconciliatory project, using ten years of public opinion data collected by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) through the South African Reconciliation Barometer survey. Offering new and unique insights into contemporary South Africa society, it will be of transitional justice and post-conflict studies, including universities and students, researchers, policy-makers and the civil society sector.
Rethinking Reconciliation and Transitional Justice After Conflict
Author: James Hughes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-24
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 0429778708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The concepts of reconciliation and transitional justice are inextricably linked in a new body of normative meta-theory underpinned by claims related to their effects in managing the transformation of deeply divided societies to a more stable and more democratic basis. This edited volume is dedicated to a critical re-examination of the key premises on which the debates in this field pivot. The contributions problematise core concepts, such as victimhood, accountability, justice and reconciliation itself; and provide a comparative perspective on the ethnic, ideological, racial and structural divisions to understand their rootedness in local contexts and to evaluate how they shape and constrain moving beyond conflict. With its systematic empirical analysis of a geographic and historic range of conflicts involving ethnic and racial groups, the volume furthers our grasp of contradictions often involved in transitional justice scholarship and practice and how they may undermine the very goals of peace, stability and reconciliation that they seek to promote. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Unsettling the Settler Within
Author: Paulette Regan
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2010-12-22
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0774859644
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that engineered the system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues that in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation, non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization. They must relinquish the persistent myth of themselves as peacemakers and acknowledge the destructive legacy of a society that has stubbornly ignored and devalued Indigenous experience. Today’s truth and reconciliation processes must make space for an Indigenous historical counter-narrative in order to avoid perpetuating a colonial relationship between Aboriginal and settler peoples. A compassionate call to action, this powerful book offers all Canadians – both Indigenous and not – a new way of approaching the critical task of healing the wounds left by the residential school system.
