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Costs of Justice
In The Costs of Justice , Brian K. Grodsky provides
qualitative analyses of how transitional justice processes have
evolved in diverse ways in postcommunist Poland, Croatia, Serbia,
and Uzbekistan, by examining the decision-making processes and
goals of those actors who contributed to key transitional justice
policy decisions. Grodsky draws on extensive interviews with key
political figures, human rights leaders, and representatives of
various international, state, and nongovernmental bodies, as well
as detailed analysis of international and local news reports, to
offer a systematic and qualitatively compelling account of
transitional justice from the perspective of activists who, at the
end of a previous regime, were suddenly transformed from
downtrodden victim to empowered judge.
Grodsky challenges the argument that transitional justice in
post-repressive states is largely a function of the relative power
of new versus old elites. He maintains that a new regime's
transitional justice policy is closely linked to its capacity to
provide goods and services expected by constituents, not to
political power struggles. In introducing this goods variable, so
common to broad political analysis but largely overlooked in the
transitional justice debate, Grodsky argues that we must revise our
understanding of transitional justice. It is not an exceptional
issue; it is but one of many political decisions faced by leaders
in a transition state.
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Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights
For the last thirty years, documented human rights violations have been met with an unprecedented rise in demands for accountability. This trend challenges the use of amnesties which typically foreclose opportunities for criminal prosecutions that some argue are crucial to transitional justice. Recent developments have seen amnesties circumvented, overturned, and resisted by lawyers, states, and judiciaries committed to ending impunity for human rights violations. Yet, despite this global movement, the use of amnesties since the 1970s has not declined.
Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rightsexamines why and how amnesties persist in the face of mounting pressure to prosecute the perpetrators of human rights violations. Drawing on more than 700 amnesties instituted between 1970 and 2005, Renée Jeffery maps out significant trends in the use of amnesty and offers a historical account of how both the use and the perception of amnesty has changed. As mechanisms to facilitate transitions to democracy, to reconcile divided societies, or to end violent conflicts, amnesties have been adapted to suit the competing demands of contemporary postconflict politics and international accountability norms. Through the history of one evolving political instrument,Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rightssheds light on the changing thought, practice, and goals of human rights discourse generally.
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Understanding the Indigenous and Tribal People Convention, 1989 (No. 169)
This handbook aims to answer some of the essential questions regarding Convention No. 169 and is addressed to governments, employers and workers organizations, as well as for indigenous and tribal peoples.
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Transition and justice : negotiating the terms of new beginnings in Africa
\"This book examines a series of cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' have been declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions played a role in defining justice and the new socio-political order\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Transition and justice : negotiating the terms of new beginnings in Africa
Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful 'new beginnings' were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order.
* Offers a new perspective on transition and justice in Africa transcending the institutional limits of transitional justice
* Covers a wide range of situations, and presents a broad range of sites where past injustices are addressed
* Examines cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' have been declared after periods of violence
* Addresses fundamental questions about transitions and justice in societies characterized by a high degree of external involvement and internal fragmentation
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Israeli Pre-Transitional Justice and the Nakba Law
Pre-transitional justice activities that expose past injustices during entrenched conflicts can incite strong reactions among actors who feel threatened by or dislike such activities, and who thus attempt to silence controversial truths. This article illuminates how attempts to silence controversial truths, in parallel with shutting down debate, can also have the unintended outcome of enlarging public discourse on previously marginalised issues. Thus, paradoxically, efforts to curb freedom of expression sometimes result instead in an expanded public capacity to debate previously silenced truths about the conflict. We conduct a case study of reactions to pre-transitional justice in Israeli society focusing on the so-called Nakba Law, enacted in 2011. Through interviews with members of the non-governmental organisation Zochrot, politicians, teachers and media persons, we first show the relationship between pre-transitional justice and enacting the Nakba Law. We then demonstrate that while the Nakba Law indeed aimed to hamper freedom of expression, it also enabled increased public knowledge about the meaning of Nakba. Our theoretical proposition regarding this paradox, in this case activated by instigating new memory laws, is highly relevant to other conflicts-in-resolution that experience pre-transitional justice processes.
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