Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change

by Bronwyn Anne Leebaw

Book Overview

How should state-sponsored atrocities be judged and remembered? This controversial question animates contemporary debates on transitional justice and reconciliation. This book reconsiders the legacies of two institutions that transformed the theory and practice of transitional justice. Whereas the Nuremberg Trials exemplified the promise of legalism and international criminal justice, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission promoted restorative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521169771
• ISBN13: 9780521169776
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"