National Reconciliation Transitional Justice Processes In West Africa
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National Reconciliation Transitional Justice Processes In West Africa
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
National Reconciliation Transitional Justice Processes In West Africa written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Human rights categories.
Advocating Transitional Justice In Africa
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Author : Jasmina Brankovic
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-30
Advocating Transitional Justice In Africa written by Jasmina Brankovic and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-30 with Political Science categories.
This edited volume examines the role of local civil society in shaping understandings and processes of transitional justice in Africa – a nursery of transitional justice ideas for well over two decades. It brings together practitioners and scholars with intimate knowledge of these processes to evaluate the agendas and strategies of local civil society, and offers an opportunity to reflect on ‘lessons learnt’ along the way. The contributors focus on the evolution and effectiveness of transitional justice interventions, providing a glimpse into the motivations and inner workings of major civil society actors. The book presents an African perspective on transitional justice through a compilation of country-specific and thematic analyses of agenda setting and lobbying efforts. It offers insights into state–civil society relations on the continent, which shape these agendas. The chapters present case studies from Southern, Central, East, West and North Africa, and a range of moments and types of transition. In addition to historical perspective, the chapters provide fresh and up-to- date analyses of ongoing transitional justice efforts that are key to defining the future of how the field is understood globally, in theory and in practice Endorsements: "This great volume of written work – Advocating Transitional Justice in Africa: The Role of Civil Society – does what virtually no other labor of the intellect has done heretofore. Authored by movement activists and thinkers in the fields of human rights and transitional justice, the volume wrestles with the complex place and roles of transitional justice in the project of societal reconstruction in Africa. ... This volume will serve as a timely and thought-provoking guide for activists, thinkers, and policy makers – as well as students of transitional justice – interested in the tension between the universal and the particular in the arduous struggle for liberation. Often, civil society actors in Africa have been accused of consuming the ideas of others, but not producing enough, if any, of their own. This volume makes clear the spuriousness of this claim and firmly plants an African flag in the field of ideas." Makau Mutua
Transitional Justice In West Africa
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Author : Linus Nnabuike Malu
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-08-19
Transitional Justice In West Africa written by Linus Nnabuike Malu and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-19 with Law categories.
This book explores the challenges of transitional justice in West Africa, specifically how countries in the region have dealt with transitional justice problems in the last 30 years (1990–2020), and how they have managed the process. Using comparative, historical, and legal analyses it examines the politics of justice after violent conflicts in West Africa, the major transitional justice mechanisms established in the region, and how countries have used these institutions to address injustice and the pains of war in some West African countries. The book examines how transitional justice mechanisms have contributed to victims’ rights, reconciliation, and peace in transitional societies, and whether transitional justice mechanisms deployed in West Africa were suitable or ill-fitted, and the politics of deploying them. The book is addressed to a wide audience: policymakers, and graduate and post-graduate students of transitional justice, conflict resolution, peace studies, conflict transformation, international criminal law, law and similar subjects. This book will be of great value to academics and researchers, as well as lecturers in tertiary institutions offering relevant courses; legal practitioners; peace practitioners/NGOs; and those working in the field of transitional justice and human rights.
Pieces Of The Puzzle
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Author : Charles Villa-Vicencio
language : en
Publisher: African Minds
Release Date : 2004
Pieces Of The Puzzle written by Charles Villa-Vicencio and has been published by African Minds this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Amnesty categories.
Reconciliation - Ubuntu - Peace processes - Reparation - Restorative justice - Amnesty - Memory - Testimony - Transitional justice - Genocide - The international criminal court - Truth commissions - Traditional and customary law - Human rights - Rights and reconciliation - Economic transformation - National truth commissions - Online resources on transitional.
Roads To Reconciliation
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Author : Elin Skaar
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2005-03-22
Roads To Reconciliation written by Elin Skaar and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-22 with Political Science categories.
The past two decades have witnessed the end of several civil wars and authoritarian regimes. In a period shaped by the ideal of democratization, in which more countries are emerging from deep-rooted conflicts, international attention is turning to the question of how societies with a grievous past face issues of accountability and reconciliation. How do societies deal with a past characterized by gross human rights violations? What kinds of processes—judicial as well as non-judicial—are most likely to generate a sense of reconciliation? Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a systematic and comparative analysis of reconciliation processes in various societies that in recent years have made a transition from authoritarian to democratic rule, or from war to relative peace. Revisiting case studies from Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia through a lens of comparative analysis, shedding new light on how societies have dealt with their violent pasts, Roads to Reconciliation is essential reading for both scholars and practitioners concerned with human rights, transitional justice, or peace building.
Legal Transplants And Functionalism In Transitional Justice
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Author : Cosmas Chibueze Emeziem
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Legal Transplants And Functionalism In Transitional Justice written by Cosmas Chibueze Emeziem and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
It is almost axiomatic that transitional societies are usually faced with existential needs - redress of injustices, peace, and rebirth of social bearing. This has birthed transitional justice - a set of judicial and non-judicial measures aimed at redressing human rights abuses -which may include prosecutions, truth commissions, reparations, and such other transitional justice measures. Transitional justice is also about the desire to unearth the truths underpinning the injustices and creating a new paradigm of societal living - justice informed by truth. To fulfill these needs, legal ideas, and templates are readily borrowed - making transitional societies fertile grounds for legal transplants. Query - how well suited are these legal borrowings for the recipient society? What levels of critical scrutiny are given to basic social, economic and structural questions of the recipient normative order so as to ensure an effectual transplant? Post-Colonial Africa - West Africa - is a vast field of transitions. Legal Transplant of the transitional justice mechanism of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) has become quite common in the region. I argue that to understand the impact of the l transplant of TRCs, there is a need to understand the functions of TRCs - manifestly and otherwise. One way of doing this is to further interrogate TRCs with the comparative law theory of functionalism. This interrogation I argue, will yield not only 'the manifest and latent functions' of TRCs but also strengthen its transformative capacity. More so, the analytical and comparative evaluation of the TRCs seen in parts of West Africa - Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone - via legal transplant and functionalism, will help in sharpening TRCs are effective tools of transitional justice in ways that are not only economically transformative, but also social justice driven and capable of sustaining peace through human flourishing. It must be emphasized that the work seeks to infuse the TRC mechanism with a recipe of socioeconomic and political economic consciousness so that 'the felt necessities' of the communities - meaningful leaving, healing, food, education, shelter, access to clean water and capabilities; which often predisposes them to fragility - do not become the forgone alternative in transitional justice. Otherwise the TRC mechanism becomes merely grand gesture lacking in real impact on the wellbeing of transitional societies. In addition, the grand gestures about TRCs will continue to suffer the critique of producing modest results. In the end transitional societies want peace - a peace founded on truth, and justice - and I dare say that that economic justice is indispensable in that search. Economic justice is a legitimate expectation of transitional societies and this work inserts itself directly into the center of the ongoing scholarly debate about the impact of TRCs as mechanisms of transitional justice in the West African region. It does this using legal transplants and functionalism theories. It makes a case that economic and social justice should not be treated as forgone alternatives of transitional justice process but as cornerstones of the entire transitional justice architecture.
The Era Of Transitional Justice
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Author : Paul Gready
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-10-18
The Era Of Transitional Justice written by Paul Gready and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-18 with Law categories.
The Era of Transitional Justice explores a broad set of issues raised by political transition and transitional justice through the prism of the South African TRC. South Africa constitutes a powerful case study of the enduring structural legacies of a troubled past, and of both the potential and limitations of transitional justice and human rights as agents of transformation in the contemporary era. South Africa‘s story has wider relevance because it helped to launch constitutional human rights and transitional justice as global discourses; as such, its own legacy is to some extent writ large in post-authoritarian and post-conflict contexts across the world. Based on a decade of research, and in an analysis that is both comparative and interdisciplinary, Paul Gready maintains that transitional justice needs to do more to address structural violence and in particular poverty, inequality and social and criminal violence as these have emerged as stubborn legacies from an oppressive or war-torn past in many parts of the world. Organised around four central themes new keyword conceptualisation (truth, justice, reconciliation); re-imagining human rights; engaging with the past and present; remaking the public sphere it is an argument that will be of considerable relevance to those interested in the law and politics of transitional societies.
Transitional Justice In Comparative Perspective
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Author : Samar El-Masri
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-01-17
Transitional Justice In Comparative Perspective written by Samar El-Masri and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-17 with Political Science categories.
What if we could change the conditions in post-conflict/post-authoritarian countries to make transitional justice work better? This book argues that if the context in countries in need of transitional justice can be ameliorated before processes of transitional justice are established, they are more likely to meet with success. As the contributors reveal, this can be done in different ways. At the attitudinal level, changing the broader social ethos can improve the chances that societies will be more receptive to transitional justice. At the institutional level, the capacity of mechanisms and institutions can be strengthened to offer more support to transitional justice processes. Drawing on lessons learned in Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Gambia, Lebanon, Palestine, and Uganda, the book explores ways to better the conditions in post-conflict/post-authoritarian countries to improve the success of transitional justice.
Where Law Meets Reality
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Author : Moses Chrispus Okello
language : en
Publisher: Fahamu/Pambazuka
Release Date : 2012-07-05
Where Law Meets Reality written by Moses Chrispus Okello and has been published by Fahamu/Pambazuka this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-05 with Law categories.
Considering the core debates about how to develop a transitional justice agenda that best responds to the African context, this book addresses the tension between justice, peace and reconciliation.
Building Nations
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Author : Charles Villa-Vicencio
language : en
Publisher: African Minds
Release Date : 2005
Building Nations written by Charles Villa-Vicencio and has been published by African Minds this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Business & Economics categories.
The volume offers a sweeping introduction to the politics of transition in the four principle nations in the African Great Lakes region.