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Title
Transition and Justice: An Introduction |
Full text
http://doc.rero.ch/record/288888/files/2014_Anders_Zenker_Transition.pdf |
Date
2017 |
Author(s)
Zenker, Olaf; Anders, Gerhard |
Abstract
Since the end of the Cold War, political new beginnings have increasingly been linked to questions of transitional justice. The contributions to this collection examine a series of cases from across the African continent 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. Three issues seem to be crucial to the understanding of transitional justice in the context of wider social debates on justice and political change: the problem of 'new beginnings', of finding a foundation for that which explicitly breaks with the past; the discrepancies between lofty promises and the messy realities of transitional justice in action; and the dialectic between logics of the exception and the ordinary, employed to legitimize or resist transitional justice mechanisms. These are the particular focus of this Introduction. |
Language
eng |
Repository
Switzerland - Library Network of Western Switzerland (RERO)
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