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Delayed Transitional Justice: Lessons from Spain, Brazil, and Uruguay book cover

1st Edition

Delayed Transitional Justice Lessons from Spain, Brazil, and Uruguay

By Mariana S. Mendes Copyright 2024
264 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book addresses the issue of the timing of transitional justice policies in countries that had negotiated transitions from authoritarianism to democracy. Why are transitional justice measures often being implemented decades after the events they refer to? More specifically, what combination of factors leads to the implementation of transitional justice policies at certain moments in time?... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I

Conceptual and theoretical framework

1 Definition and operationalization of transitional justice: The Transitional Justice Scale

2 Theoretical framework: A holistic approach to delayed transitional justice

PART II

Transitional justice trajectories in context

3 Spain: From deliberate forgetting to limited acknowledgment

4 Uruguay: From blockage to criminal accountability

5 Brazil: From a marginal issue to the ‘right to truth’

PART III

Comparative analysis 2

6 Making sense of the timing of transitional justice

7 Making sense of differences in countries’ trajectories

Conclusion

Annex

Index

Biography

Mariana S. Mendes is a post-doctoral researcher at the Mercator Forum for Migration and Democracy, Institute of Political Science, Technical University Dresden, Germany.

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