Overview
Practical and conceptual clarity for options and agendas to make transitional justice approaches accessible without disrupting fragile peace processes
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Transitional Justice: The Legal Perspective
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Peace Process Considerations: Mediation, Reconciliation and Development
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Specific Challenges in Pursuing Justice During or after Conflict
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Case Studies on Resolving Tensions between Peace and Justice
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About this book
Results of the 2007 Nuremberg Conference on Peace and Justice: Tensions between peace and justice have long been debated by scholars, practitioners and agencies including the United Nations, and both theory and policy must be refined for very practical application in situations emerging from violent conflict or political repression. Specific contexts demand concrete decisions and approaches aimed at redress of grievance and creation of conditions of social justice for a non-violent future. There has been definitive progress in a world in which blanket amnesties were granted at times with little hesitation. There is a growing understanding that accountability has pragmatic as well as principled arguments in its favour. Practical arguments as much as shifts in the norms have created a situation in which the choice is increasingly seen as "which forms of accountability" rather than a stark choice between peace and justice. It is socio-political transformation, not just an end to violence, that is needed to build sustainable peace. This book addresses these dilemmas through a thorough overview of the current state of legal obligations; discussion of the need for a holistic approach including development; analysis of the implications of the coming into force of the ICC; and a series of "hard" case studies on internationalized and local approaches devised to navigate the tensions between peace and justice.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building a Future on Peace and Justice
Book Subtitle: Studies on Transitional Justice, Peace and Development The Nuremberg Declaration on Peace and Justice
Editors: Kai Ambos, Judith Large, Marieke Wierda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85754-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85753-2Published: 09 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09933-5Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-85754-9Published: 04 December 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 572
Topics: Public International Law , Political Science, International Criminal Law , Criminology and Criminal Justice, general