Grassroots activism and the evolution of transitional justice the families of the disappeared
The families of the disappeared have long struggled to uncover the truth about their missing relatives. In so doing, their mobilization has shaped central transitional justice norms and institutions, as this ground-breaking work demonstrates. Kovras combines a new global database with the systematic...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Methodological and theoretical innovations in the use of databases in transitional justice
- The daughters of Antigone in Latin America: Argentinian mothers
- 'Forensic cascade': the technologies and institutions of truth
- The 'missing' tale of human rights
- Institutionalized silences for the missing in Lebanon
- Cyprus: the bright side of a frozen conflict
- Truth commissions and the missing: TRC's 'unfinished business'
- Poetic justice: the Chilean desaparecidos
- Conclusions: five lessons for transitional justice