1st Edition

Resistance and Transitional Justice

Edited By Briony Jones, Julie Bernath Copyright 2017
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

Despite a more reflective concern over the past 20 years with marginalised voices, justice from below, power relations and the legitimacy of mechanisms and processes, scholarship on transitional justice has remained relatively silent on the question of ‘resistance’. In response, this book asks what can be learnt by engaging with resistance to transitional justice not just as a problem of... Read more

1. Resistance and Transitional Justice

Briony Jones and Julie Bernath

I Côte d’Ivoire

2. Resistance to Transitional Justice in the Context of Political Violence in Côte d’Ivoire

Adou Djané Dit Fatogoma

3. Seeking a ‘Just Justice’: Discursive Strategies of Resistance in Côte d’Ivoire

Briony Jones

II Burundi

4. Between Resistance to and Compliance with Transitional Justice: the Case of Political Decision-makers in Burundi

Sandra Rubli

5. Civil Society Organisations and Transitional Justice in Burundi: When Making is Resisting

Gérard Birantamije

III Cambodia

6. Civil Society Organisations and Transitional Justice in Burundi: When Making is Resisting

Julie Bernath

7. Multivocal Resistance to Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Cambodia

Kosal Path

8. Concluding Reflections

Briony Jones and Julie Bernath

Biography

Briony Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Politics and International Studies department of the University of Warwick, UK and a senior researcher at swisspeace, an associate research institute of the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Julie Bernath is a Senior Researcher and programme officer in the Dealing with the Past Program at swisspeace, an associate research institute of the University of Basel, Switzerland.