Laura S. Martin (University of Nottingham)

Navigating Local Transitional Justice

Agency at Work in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

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Produktbeschreibung

Highlights the agency of local people in enabling transitional justice in post-conflict Sierra Leone. Moving past questions of institutional effectiveness, Laura S. Martin explores the diversity of post-conflict experiences and shows how individuals and communities enact justice on their own terms.

Produktdetails

• African Studies
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781009281010
• ISBN-10: 1009281011
• Artikelnr.: 66227856

Autorenporträt

Laura S. Martin is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham and an affiliate at the University of Makeni, Sierra Leone. She has conducted research in Sierra Leone for over ten years and, in 2021, was Co-Investigator on an AHRC project entitled 'Performing Arts and Social Violence'. She has been published in numerous journals including Cooperation and Conflict and Third World Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
Acknowledgements
1. Agency in times of transitional justice: recognized and unrecognized mechanisms 'at work'
2. Navigating violence, peace and justice: conflict and post-conflict experiences in Sierra Leone
3. Deconstructing Fambul Tok's discourse and practice: the local, ownership and participation
4. Participant experiences with Fambul Tok's program: interpretation, appropriation, agency
5. Unrecognized mechanisms, normality and everyday realities in transition
6. Activating justice
Appendix A. Informant interview list
References
Index.