1st Edition

Rethinking Reconciliation and Transitional Justice After Conflict

Edited By James Hughes, Denisa Kostovicova Copyright 2019
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

The concepts of reconciliation and transitional justice are inextricably linked in a new body of normative meta-theory underpinned by claims related to their effects in managing the transformation of deeply divided societies to a more stable and more democratic basis. This edited volume is dedicated to a critical re-examination of the key premises on which the debates in this field pivot. The... Read more

Introduction: Rethinking reconciliation and transitional justice after conflict  1. Agency versus structure in reconciliation  2. Decolonization as reconciliation: rethinking the national conflict paradigm in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict  3. Transitional justice and political order in Rwanda  4. Norm contestation and reconciliation: evidence from a regional transitional justice process in the Balkans  5. Implementing transformative justice: survivors and ex-combatants at the Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación in Peru  6. Looking beyond the state: transitional justice and the Kurdish issue in Turkey  7. Towards transitional justice? Black reparations and the end of mass incarceration  8. Race, reconciliation, and justice in Australia: from denial to acknowledgment

Biography



James Hughes is a Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics & Political Science, UK.



Denisa Kostovicova is an Associate Professor of Global Politics in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her research interests include transitional justice and post-conflict reconstruction. She is the author of Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (2005).