Localizing Transitional Justice: Interventions and Priorities After Mass Violence

by Pierre Hazan and Lars Waldorf

Book Overview

Through war crimes prosecutions, truth commissions, purges of perpetrators, reparations, and memorials, transitional justice practices work under the assumptions that truth telling leads to reconciliation, prosecutions bring closure, and justice prevents the recurrence of violence. But when local responses to transitional justice destabilize these assumptions, the result can be a troubling disconnection between international norms and survivors'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804761493
• ISBN13: 9780804761499
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"