Gerhard Anders, Olaf Zenker

Broschiertes Buch

Transition and Justice

Negotiating the Terms of New Beginnings in Africa

Beschreibung

Transition and Justice examines a series of cases fromacross the African continent where peaceful 'newbeginnings' were declared after periods of violence and wheretransitional justice institutions helped define justice and the newsocio-political order.

Offers a new perspective on transition and justice in Africatranscending the institutional limits of transitional justice
Covers a wide range of situations, and presents a broad rangeof sites where past injustices are addressed
Examines cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' havebeen declared after periods of violence
Addresses fundamental questions about transitions and justicein societies characterized by a high degree of external involvementand internal fragmentation

Autor

Gerhard Anders is lecturer at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh. He has conducted research on the implementation of the good governance agenda, international criminal justice and transitional justice in Africa. He is co-editor of Corruption and the Secret of Law: A Legal Anthropological Perspective (2007) and author of In the Shadow of Good Governance: An Ethnography of Civil Service Reform in Africa (2010). Olaf Zenker is Junior Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin. He has done research on Irish language revivalism and ethnicity in Northern Ireland and currently studies the moral modernity of the new South African state in the context of its land restitution process. He is the author of Irish/ness Is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland  (2013) and co-editor of The State and the Paradox of Customary Law in Africa (2015).  

Produktdetails

• Development and Change Special Issues
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781118944776
• ISBN-10: 1118944771
• Artikelnr.: 41079260

Rezensionen

'Transition and Justice offers a useful and timely resource on the diversity of transitional justice in Africa, now the central regional focus of eclectic transitional justice initiatives. More than that, the book's strength lies in its interdisciplinary approach to the field more generally. The collection brings a fresh and welcome approach to the field. It identifies three dialectics: 'new beginnings / past', 'lofty ambition / messy reality', and 'exceptional / ordinary' providing a valuable framing of current difficulties with both the theory and practice of transitional justice. It is an excellent book whose appeal goes well beyond those interested in Africa. I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in questions of justice and

peacebuilding in and beyond Africa, whatever their discipline.'
-- Christine Bell, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Edinburgh, UK, author of On the Law of Peace: Peace Agreements and Lex Pacificatoria

'This superb collection of essays on transitional justice in Africa subjects the conventional language of new beginnings after a period of violence in Africa to rigorous scrutiny. The contributions to Transition and Justice: Negotiating the Terms of New Beginnings in Africa demonstrate the value of fine-grained empirical and ethnographic studies of international justice and aid mechanisms, documenting the continuities with the violent past, and highlighting the discrepancy between the elevated ideals of international humanitarian institutions and the actual justice practices on the ground. The volume is required reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the complex interactions between an international transitional justice agenda and local culture and conceptions of justice.'
-- Richard Ashby Wilson, Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of Connecticut, USA, author of Writing History in International Criminal Trials