Met lit. opg. XXX, 604 p. ; 26 cm

Met lit.opg. en index. XL, 780 p. ; 26 cm

"As nations move from repression to democracy, or from war to peace, the legacy of past abuses can be a heavy burden. How can a society peacefully integrate both the personnel and the victims of the former regime? How can it achieve both justice and reconciliation? USIP helped shape the field of "transitional justice" and its three-volume collection Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon ...

Met lit.opg. XXXII, 834 p. ; 26 cm

As new forms of government replace repressive regimes, the perennial question arises: how to deal with the wrongdoers of the old regime? In the effort to heal and rebuild societies torn by violence, new governments and the international community have tried mechanisms ranging from criminal trials and financial restitution to public denunciation to more symbolic measures such as truth commissions. The ...

"How do societies transitioning from oppressive to democratic rule hold accountable those citizens who contributed to maintaining injustice in the ancient regime by secretly denouncing fellow citizens? Is their public identification a way of fulfilling respect for those who suffered harm as a result of their collaboration? And is public identification respectful of denunciators themselves? This book ...

Jeffry Pondaag (1953), geboren in Jakarta, kwam samen met zijn Nederlandse moeder op 16-jarige leeftijd naar Nederland. Hij vertelt over zijn ervaringen op school en als cement arbeider waar hij met zijn achtergrond vaak als ‘anders’ gezien wordt, en over de verdeeldheden in zijn Indonesisch-Nederlandse familie. In 2005 richt hij met Batara Hutagalung het Comité Nederlandse Ereschulden, Komite Utang ...

"Many years after the fall of Franco's regime, Spanish human rights activists have turned to new methods to keep the memory of state terror alive. By excavating mass graves, exhuming remains, and employing forensic analysis and DNA testing, they seek to provide direct evidence of repression and break through the silence about the dictatorship's atrocities that persisted well into Spain's transition ...

When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, ...