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Peace versus justice? : the dilemma of transitional justice in Africa / edited by Chandra Lekha Sriram and Suren Pillay.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : James Currey, 2010.Description: xiii, 373 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781847010216 (James Curney : pbk.)
  • 1847010210 (James Curney : pbk.)
  • 9781869141738 (University of KwaZuluNatal Press : pbk.)
  • 1869141733 (University of KwaZuluNatal Press : pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.69096 22
LOC classification:
  • JC599.A36 P43 2010
Contents:
The politics of transitional justice -- Inclusive justice: the limitations of trial justice and truth commissions -- Prosecute or pardon? Between truth commissions and war crimes trials -- Gender and truth reconciliation commissions: comparative reflections -- Transitional justice, democratisation and the rule of law -- South Africa's truth and Reconciliation Commission from a global perspective -- Reflecting on the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a peacebuilding perspective -- Peace versus justice? A view from Nigeria -- A path to peace and justice: Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission in retrospect -- Peace and justice: Mozambique and Sierra Leone compared -- Sierra Leone's 'not-so' special court -- Charles Taylor, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and international politics -- The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda: reconciling for acquitted -- The politics of peace, justice and healing in post-war Mozambique: 'practices of rupture' by Magamba spirits and healers in Gorongosa -- Indigenous justice or political instrument? The modern Gacaca courts of Rwanda -- The International Criminal Court African experiment: the Central African Republic, Darfur, Northern Uganda and The Democratic Republic of the Congo -- The International Criminal Court in Darfur.
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Originally published: Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The politics of transitional justice -- Inclusive justice: the limitations of trial justice and truth commissions -- Prosecute or pardon? Between truth commissions and war crimes trials -- Gender and truth reconciliation commissions: comparative reflections -- Transitional justice, democratisation and the rule of law -- South Africa's truth and Reconciliation Commission from a global perspective -- Reflecting on the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a peacebuilding perspective -- Peace versus justice? A view from Nigeria -- A path to peace and justice: Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission in retrospect -- Peace and justice: Mozambique and Sierra Leone compared -- Sierra Leone's 'not-so' special court -- Charles Taylor, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and international politics -- The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda: reconciling for acquitted -- The politics of peace, justice and healing in post-war Mozambique: 'practices of rupture' by Magamba spirits and healers in Gorongosa -- Indigenous justice or political instrument? The modern Gacaca courts of Rwanda -- The International Criminal Court African experiment: the Central African Republic, Darfur, Northern Uganda and The Democratic Republic of the Congo -- The International Criminal Court in Darfur.

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