Transition And Justice: Negotiating The Terms Of New Beginnings In Africa (development And Change Special Issues)

"This book examines a series of cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' have been declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions played a role in defining justice and the new socio-political order"-- Abstract: Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful 'new beginnings' were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order. � Read more... This Book Examines A Series Of Cases Where Peaceful 'new Beginnings' Have Been Declared After Periods Of Violence And Where Transitional Justice Institutions Played A Role In Defining Justice And The New Socio-political Order-- Edited By Gerhard Anders And Olaf Zenker. Machine Generated Contents Note: Notes On Contributors 1 Transition And Justice: An Introduction Gerhard Anders And Olaf Zenker 2 Making Good Citizens From Bad Life In Post-genocide Rwanda Simon Turner 3 Performing Repatriation? The Role Of Refugee Aid In Shaping New Beginnings In Mauritania Marion Fresia 4 Conflicting Logics Of Exceptionality: New Beginnings And The Problem Of Police Violence In Post-apartheid South Africa Steffen Jensen 5 The 2011 Toilet Wars In South Africa: Justice And Transition Between The Exceptional And The Everyday After Apartheid Steven Robins 6 New Law Against An Old State: Land Restitution As A Transition To Justice In Post-apartheid South Africa? Olaf Zenker 7 Transitional Justice, States Of Emergency And Business As Usual In Sierra Leone Gerhard Anders 8 'when We Walk Out, What Was It All About?': Views On New Beginnings From Within The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda Nigel Eltringham 9 New Start Or False Start? The Icc And Electoral Violence In Kenya Sabine Hohn 10 Justice Without Peace? International Justice And Conflict Resolution In Northern Uganda Kimberley Armstrong 11 The Violence Of Peace: Ethnojustice In Northern Uganda Adam Branch Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Content: Notes on Contributors vii 1 Transition and Justice: An Introduction 1 Gerhard Anders and Olaf Zenker 2 Making Good Citizens from Bad Life in Post-Genocide Rwanda 21 Simon Turner 3 Performing Repatriation? The Role of Refugee Aid in Shaping New Beginnings in Mauritania 41 Marion Fresia 4 Conflicting Logics of Exceptionality: New Beginnings and the Problem of Police Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa 65 Steffen Jensen 5 The 2011 Toilet Wars in South Africa: Justice and Transition between the Exceptional and the Everyday after Apartheid 85 Steven Robins 6 New Law against an Old State: Land Restitution as a Transition to Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa? 113 Olaf Zenker 7 Transitional Justice, States of Emergency and Business as Usual in Sierra Leone 135 Gerhard Anders 8 'When we Walk Out, What was it all About?': Views on New Beginnings from within the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 153 Nigel Eltringham 9 New Start or False Start? The ICC and Electoral Violence in Kenya 175 Sabine Hohn 10 Justice without Peace? International Justice and Conflict Resolution in Northern Uganda 199 Kimberley Armstrong 11 The Violence of Peace: Ethnojustice in Northern Uganda 219 Adam Branch Index 241

Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful 'new beginnings' were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order.

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

Du site de l'éd.: Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful 'new beginnings' were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order. - Offers a new perspective on transition and justice in Africa transcending the institutional limits of transitional justice; - Covers a wide range of situations, and presents a broad range of sites where past injustices are addressed; - Examines cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' have been declared after periods of violence; - Addresses fundamental questions about transitions and justice in societies characterized by a high degree of external involvement and internal fragmentation