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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"transitional justice"”.
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Theorizing 'Transitional Justice'
Early literature in the field of transitional justice was dominated by debates over the meaning of justice, with retributivists arguing for the need for criminal prosecutions following mass human rights violations and advocates of restorative justice claiming that non-prosecutorial forms of justice …
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Grassroots transitional justice framework : the role of mediation in Zimbabwe’s transitional justice processes
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration – Peace Studies, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2022.
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Redressing Social Inequality through Transitional Justice
… social inequality can be considered a form of transitional justice, this dissertation leads a critical discussion on the assumptions of traditional or narrow understandings of transitional justice, how these obscure the potential for transitional justice to tackle issues of economic and social …
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Great expectations : managing realities of transitional justice
… examines the management of expectations for transitional justice. The transitional justice trials for the former Yugoslavia (Tribunal) and Cambodia (Chambers) reveal an expectation dilemma. In interviews with transitional justice practitioners and advocates, expectations were declared to be …
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Great expectations : managing realities of transitional justice
… examines the management of expectations for transitional justice. The transitional justice trials for the former Yugoslavia (Tribunal) and Cambodia (Chambers) reveal an expectation dilemma. In interviews with transitional justice practitioners and advocates, expectations were declared to be …
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Conceptualising Restorative Justice within Transitional Justice Framework
The concept of 'restorative justice' has in recent years been widely invoked in the transitional justice literature. The term is however often used loosely, inconsistently and in apparently different senses. This minor dissertation addresses this dilemma by bringing together three influential …
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Children, youth and transitional justice in Northern Uganda
… region. Existing frameworks and proposals for transitional justice emphasize traditional justice, the option of establishing a truth commission, formal justice and reparations most prominently. Despite the strong involvement of children and youths in the conflict – as victims and perpetrators – …
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Violence, law and the (im)possibility of transitional justice
Since its emergence less than twenty years ago, transitional justice has established itself as a coherent field of activity, held together by a set of common assumptions about the value of justice in times of political transition. The requirements of transitional justice are increasingly …
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The professional interpreter in transitional justice an empirical study
… meeting professional standards when operating in Transitional Justice settings. The study first reviews the origins and development of conference and simultaneous interpretation and the problems faced by the interpreters who serviced the Nuremberg Trials.
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Remedy for corporate human rights abuses in transitional justice contexts
… by aiding and abetting government forces. In transitional justice contexts, the trials, truth commissions, and reparations typically included within the set of remedy mechanisms have focused primarily on abuses by state authorities’ or by non-state actors directly connected to the state, such …
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Socialist State Crime and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1961-2005
… trials’ in the wider context of post-Socialist transitional justice in East Germany since 1989 and asks how they were historically framed by the complex history of German attempts of ‘Vergangenheitspolitik’ (Norbert Frei) with regard to Nazi crimes. Moreover, this dissertation examines how the …
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Reconciliation through justice? : a critical analysis of Rwanda's transitional justice programmes
… comprehensive, and arguably innovative, set of transitional justice measures yet developed. This study provides a critical analysis of this 'Rwandan approach' to transitional justice with a focus on the key claim by Rwandan authorities, but often made in other contexts too, that transitional …
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Forced displacement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, international law and transitional justice
… new approach has emerged, attempting to use the transitional justice framework in solving the plight of the Nakba victims. Most of the new literature looks into the possibility of designing truth commissions to heal the pains caused by the Nakba. This thesis aims at defining the parameters of a …
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Sexual violence against women in armed conflicts: towards a transitional justice perspective
… in armed conflicts. It will then examine some of transitional justice’s responses by considering some of the ‘retributive’ and ‘restorative’ approaches to this crime. In conclusion a more coordinated approach to transitional justice will be suggested in order to improve the available response to …
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The Rhetoric of Transitional Justice: Negotiating the Years of Lead in Morocco
Transitional justice refers to the variety of rhetorical practices and discourses (restorative and retributive) that nations engage in during the aftermath of state criminality. While examples of mass political violence abound, this inquiry focuses on the Moroccan experience of coming to terms with …
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Localising Peacebuilding in South Sudan? A Case of Transitional Justice and Reconciliation
… the globe are its insistence on international justice instruments such as the International Criminal Court, and the failure to recognize the role of local approaches and to incorporate them into peacebuilding intervention policies. This has resulted in failures to address the grievances and …
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Justice in Action: Assessing the Institutional Design and Implementation of Transitional Justice
… on the impact that policies, or mechanisms, of transitional justice (e.g. tribunals, truth commissions, and amnesty laws) have on future human rights abuses and democratization processes. However, this literature fails to differentiate between having a policy on the books and having a policy …
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The Media of Memories: Argentine and Brazilian Transitional Justice as Seen on TV
… memory narratives promoted by normative transitional justice mechanisms. In this vein, this project—The Media of Memories: Argentine and Transitional Justice as Seen on TV—poses a series of interrelated questions:1) How can transitional justice processes take place on the small screen? 2) …
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Transitional justice, judicial accountability and the rule of law- a Nigerian case study
… an important but relatively neglected aspect of transitional justice theory and state practice. The thesis of the research is that the judicial institution, as the third branch of government ought to be held accountable for its role in past governance in transitional societies. This is …
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Transitional Justice, Decolonisation, and the Legitimation of Political Change in Contemporary South Africa
In this project, I explore the residual impact of transitional justice discourse in contemporary South Africa. I argue specifically that even though transitional justice in South Africa became successful in terms of political justice, it failed to fulfill its promise of sociocultural and economic …
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