Families of the Missing - Couverture souple

Robins, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415831024 ISBN 13 : 9780415831024

Editeur : Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Families of the Missing interrogates the current practice of transitional justice from the viewpoint of the families of those disappeared and missing as a result of conflict and political violence. Studying the needs of families of the missing in two contexts, Nepal and Timor-Leste, the practice of transitional justice is seen to be rooted in discourses that are alien to predominantly poor and rural victims of violence, and that are driven by elites with agendas that diverge from those of the victims. Although rights are the product of a discourse that claims to be global and universal, needs are necessarily local and particular, the product of culture and context. And it is from this perspective that Families of the Missing seeks both to understand the limitations of transitional justice processes in addressing the priorities of victims, and to provide the basis of an emancipatory victim-centred approach to transitional justice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Simon Robins is based at the Postwar Reconstruction and Development Unit at the University of York

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415831024
• ISBN 13: 9780415831024
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
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• Personne responsable: non disponible