Families of the Missing: A Test for Contemporary Approaches to Transitional Justice

by Simon Robins

Families of the Missing interrogates the current practice of transitional justice from the viewpoint of the families of those disappeared and missing as a result of conflict and political violence. Studying the needs of families of the missing in two contexts, Nepal and Timor-Leste, the practice of transitional justice is seen to be rooted in discourses that are alien to predominantly poor and rural victims of violence, and that are driven by elites...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415812488
• ISBN13: 9780415812481
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"