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Transitional justice [electronic resource] : global mechanisms and local realities after genocide and mass violence / edited by Alexander Laban Hinton.

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Series: Genocide, political violence, human rights seriesPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.Description: ix, 271 p. : illSubject(s):

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Electronic books.

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364.15/1 22

LOC classification:

JC571 .T6994 2010eb

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Contents:

Introduction : Toward an anthropology of transitional justice / Alexander Laban Hinton -- Identifying Srebrenica's missing : the "shaky balance" of universalism and particularism / Sarah Wagner -- The failure of international justice in East Timor and Indonesia / Elizabeth F. Drexler -- Body of evidence : feminicide, local justice, and rule of law in "peacetime" Guatemala / Victoria Sanford and Martha Lincoln -- (In)justice : truth, reconciliation, and revenge in Rwanda's Gacaca / Jennie E. Burnet -- Remembering genocide : hypocrisy and the violence of local/global "justice" in Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey -- Genocide, affirmative repair, and the British Columbia treaty process / Andrew Woolford -- Local justice and legal rights among the San and Bakgalagadi of the Central Kalahari, Botswana / Robert K. Hitchcock and Wayne A. Babchuk -- Testimonies, truths, and transitions of justice in Argentina and Chile / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Judging the "crime of crimes" : continuity and improvisation at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham -- Building a monument : intimate politics of "reconciliation" in post-1965 Bali / Leslie Dwyer -- Afterword : The consequences of transitional justice in particular contexts / Roger Duthie.

Summary: "The origins of this project date back to a 2007 symposium, 'Local justice : global mechanisms and local meanings in the aftermath of mass atrocity,' held at Rutgers University--Newark [N.J.] ... Several participants later presented papers in a session at the July 2007 meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina."--Acknowledgments.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The origins of this project date back to a 2007 symposium, 'Local justice : global mechanisms and local meanings in the aftermath of mass atrocity,' held at Rutgers University--Newark [N.J.] ... Several participants later presented papers in a session at the July 2007 meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina."--Acknowledgments.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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