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How do societies at the national and international level try to
overcome historical injustices? What remedies did they develop to
do justice to victims of large scale atrocities? And even more
important: what have we learned from the implementation of these
so-called instruments of transitional justice in practice?Lawyers,
socials scientists and historians have published shelves full of
books and articles on how to confront the past through
international criminal tribunals, truth commissions, financial
compensation schemes and other instruments of retributive/punitive
and restorative justice. A serious problem continues to be that
broad interdisciplinary accounts that include both categories of
measures are still hardly available. With this volume a group of
international experts in the field endeavors to fill this gap, and
even more. By alternating historical overviews with critical
assessments this volume does not only offer an extensive
introduction to the world of transitional justice, but also food
for thought concerning the effectiveness of the remedies it offers
to face the past successfully.
In academic human rights research, especially legal human rights
research, little attention tends to be devoted to questions of
methodology. One reason for this may be that human rights scholars
often are former human rights activists. Dispensing with
methodological niceties enables them to engage in wishful thinking
and to come up with the conclusions they were hoping to find in the
first place. Furthermore, although much emphasis continues to be
put on the need to carry out human rights research from a
multidisciplinary perspective, the methods to be applied in such
research remain far from clear. Which criteria can be identified to
qualify a piece of human rights research as a methodologically
sound piece of work? Are there aspects and considerations that are
typical for human rights research? What are good practices in human
rights research? This book addresses these questions from the
perspective of different scholarly fields relevant for human rights
research, including international law, criminal law, criminology,
political science, comparative politics, international relations,
anthropology; philosophy, and history. This book is essential
reading for any PhD candidate embarking on a dissertation in the
field of human rights and any human rights scholar wishing to
critically reflect on the quality of her/his own methods of work.
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