UID:
almahu_9948639637802882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 362 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781839700682 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Series on transitional justice ; volume 13
Content:
Truth-seeking mechanisms, international criminal law developments, and other forms of transitional justice have become ubiquitous in societies emerging from long years of conflict, instability and oppression and moving into a post-conflict, more peaceful era. In practice, both top-down and bottom-up approaches to transitional justice are being formally and informally developed in places such as South Africa, Liberia, Peru, Chile, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and Northern Ireland. Many studies, conferences and debates have taken place addressing these developments and providing elaboration of theories relating to transition justice generally. However, rarely have these processes been examined and critiqued through a feminist lens. The position of women, particularly their specific victimisation, typically has not been taken into account in any systematic manner. Seldom do commentators specifically consider whether the recently developed mechanisms for promoting peace and reconciliation will actually help the position of women in a society moving out of repression or conflict. This is unfortunate, since women's issues are often overlooked and post-conflict societies, because they must rebuild, are ideally poised to introduce standards that would enable and ensure the active participation of the entire population, including women, in rebuilding a more stable, fair and democratic polity. This book offers some insights into women's perspectives and feminist views on the topic of transitional justice or 'justice in transition'. Bringing feminism into the conversation allows us to expand the possibilities for a transformative justice approach after a period of conflict or insecurity, not by replacing it with feminist theory, but by broadening the scope and vision of the potential responses. About this book 'This book is essential for those whose main lines of research are transitional justice, gender, feminism and conflict resolution because it collects together different -perspectives on feminism and the transition to post-conflict times. We have the opportunity to deepen the connection between transitional justice and feminism, but also to reflect on the challenges that lie ahead. In this respect, some of the chapters offer interesting methodologies through which previous findings may be seen in a new light. Everything makes more sense when theory and practice are linked, something that this book does extremely well. The cases of Chile, Kyrgyzstan, Bosnia, Cuba, South Africa, the United States, and others enrich the analysis and help to re-define new strategies to ensure that the gender perspective is kept firmly in the forefront of transitional justice.' Carolina Jimenez Sanchez in Revue Québécoise de droit international (2013) 291 '[Feminist Perspectives on Transitional Justice] opens up fruitful avenues for further research.' Rosemary Nagy in Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (2014) 446 '[W]ith this collection of essays Fineman and Zinsstag have succeeded in exposing transitional justice methodologies to the scrutiny of feminism. This book is essential reading for those involved in developing or implementing transitional justice mechanisms, as it raises the critical discussions that must not be ignored if transitional justice is to positively impact the lives of women in transitioning societies.' Grace A. Harbour in Journal of International Criminal Justice (2015) Introduction
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2020).
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Introduction : feminist perspectives on transitional justice / Martha Albertson Fineman and Estelle Zinsstag -- International law and domestic gender justice, or why case studies matter / Catherin O'Rourke -- Advancing a feminist analysis of transitional justice / Fionnuala Ní Aoláin -- Feminist perspectives on extraordinary justice / David C. Gray and Benjamin A. Levin --Intersectionality : a feminist theory for transitional justice / Eilish Rooney -- International law, crisis and feminist time / Mary H. Hansel -- Justice as practised by victims of conflict: post-World War II movements as sites of engagement and knowledge / Cheah Wui Ling -- The symbolic and communicative function of International Criminal Tribunals / Teresa Godwin Phelps -- Sexual violence against women in armed conflicts and restorative justice : an exploratory analysis / Estelle Zinsstag -- Greensboro and beyond : remediating the structural sexism in truth and reconciliation processes and determining the potential impact and benefits of truth process in the United States / Peggy Maisel -- Exclusion of women in post-conflict peace processes: transitional justice in Northern Uganda / Joseph Wasonga -- Shifting paradigms for state intervention: gender-based violence in Cuba / Deborah M. Weissman -- Beauty and the beast : gender integration and the police in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina / Lisa R. Muftić and Azra Rašić -- The parallel processes of law and social change : gender violence and work in the United States and South Africa / Julie Godlscheid -- Neoliberalism's impact on women : a case study in creating supply and demand for human trafficking / Dina Francesca Haynes.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781780681429
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781839700682/type/BOOK
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