1st Edition
The Dynamics of Transitional Justice: International Models and Local Realities in East Timor
By Lia Kent
Copyright 2012
256 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Dynamics of Transitional Justice draws on the case of East Timor in order to reassess how transitional justice mechanisms actually play out at the local level. Transitional justice mechanisms – including trials and truth commissions – have become firmly entrenched as part of the United Nations ‘tool-kit’ for successful post-conflict recovery. It is now commonly assumed that by establishing... Read more
Introduction: The Global Celebration of Transitional Justice and the East Timor Reality; Chapter One: Interrogating ‘Transition’ and ‘Justice’; Chapter Two: Stability versus Retributive Justice: Unpacking the UN’s East Timor ‘Success Story’; Chapter Three: The Serious Crimes Process and the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation: Justice Possibilities and Impossibilities; Chapter Four: National Unity, Collective Struggle and the Future: the East Timorese Leadership’s Narratives of Justice and Nation-Building; Chapter Five: Local Narratives of (In)Justice: Recognition, Retribution and Economic Assistance; Chapter Six: Local Memory Practices and the Emerging Politics of Victims’ Rights; Chapter Seven: Rethinking Transitional Justice; Bibliography
Biography
Lia Kent is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies at the Australian National University.
