Transition and Justice : An Introduction
- Zenker, Olaf University of Bern
- Anders, Gerhard University of Edinburgh
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2014
Published in:
- Development and Change. - Wiley. - 2014, vol. 45, no. 3, p. 395-414
English
Since the end of the Cold War, political new beginnings have increasingly been linked to questions of transitional justice. The contributions to this collection examine a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ have been declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions played a role in defining justice and the new socio-political order. Three issues seem to be crucial to the understanding of transitional justice in the context of wider social debates on justice and political change: the problem of ‘new beginnings’, of finding a foundation for that which explicitly breaks with the past; the discrepancies between lofty promises and the messy realities of transitional justice in action; and the dialectic between logics of the exception and the ordinary, employed to legitimize or resist transitional justice mechanisms. These are the particular focus of this Introduction.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département des sciences sociales
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Anthropology, ethnography
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 288888
- DOI 10.1111/dech.12096
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/305486
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