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      The Dynamics of Transitional Justice
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      The Dynamics of Transitional Justice

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      International Models and Local Realities in East Timor

      The Dynamics of Transitional Justice

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      The Dynamics of Transitional Justice book

      International Models and Local Realities in East Timor
      ByLia Kent
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2012
      eBook Published 27 June 2012
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203117439
      Pages 256
      eBook ISBN 9780203117439
      Subjects Area Studies, Law, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Kent, L. (2012). The Dynamics of Transitional Justice: International Models and Local Realities in East Timor (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203117439

      ABSTRACT

      The Dynamics of Transitional Justice draws on the case of East Timor in order to reassess how transitional justice mechanisms actually play out at the local level. Transitional justice mechanisms – including trials and truth commissions – have become firmly entrenched as part of the United Nations ‘tool-kit’ for successful post-conflict recovery. It is now commonly assumed that by establishing individual accountability for human rights violations, and initiating truth-seeking and reconciliation programs, individuals and societies will be assisted to ‘come to terms’ with the violent past and states will make the ‘transition’ to peaceful, stable liberal democracies. Set against the backdrop of East Timor’s referendum and the widespread violence of 1999, this book interrogates the gap between the official claims made for transitional justice and local expectations. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including extensive in-depth interviews with victims/survivors, community leaders and other actors, it produces a nuanced and critical account of the complex interplay between internationally-sponsored trials and truth commissions, national justice agendas and local priorities. The Dynamics of Transitional Justice fills a significant gap in the existing social science literature on transitional justice, and offers new insights for researchers and practitioners alike.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |24 pages

      Introduction The global celebration of transitional justice and the East Timor reality

      chapter 1|20 pages

      Interrogating ‘transition’ and ‘justice’

      chapter 2|31 pages

      Stability versus retributive justice: unpacking the UN’s East Timor ‘success story’

      chapter 3|31 pages

      The Serious Crimes Process and the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation: justice possibilities and impossibilities

      chapter 4|32 pages

      National unity, collective struggle and the future: the East Timorese leadership’s narratives of justice and nation-building

      chapter 5|35 pages

      Local narratives of (in)justice: recognition, retribution and economic assistance

      chapter 6|30 pages

      Local memory practices and the emerging politics of victims’ rights

      chapter 7|8 pages

      Rethinking transitional justice

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