Transitional justice

by Elster, Jon Nagy, Rosemary Williams, Melissa

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Criminal tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies and memorializations are the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice toolkit that can help societies transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from civil war to peace, and from state-sponsored extralegal violence to a rights-respecting rule of law. Over the last several decades, their growing use has established transitional justice as a body of both theory and practice whose guiding norms and structures encompass…

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Full title :Transitional justice / edited by Melissa S. Williams, Rosemary Nagy, and Jon Elster.

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Publication Date:©2012.

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Publisher(s):New York University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780814725276, 0814725279
oclc:ocn794663354
LC Classification:K5250
Dewey Decimal:340.115

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