Transitional Justice in Troubled Societies (Studies in Social and Global Justice) - Softcover

Aleksandar Fatić; Klaus Bachmann; Igor Lyubashenko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786605899 ISBN 13: 9781786605894

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023

Synopsis

This book discusses the crucial strategic topic for the practical implementation of transitional justice in post-conflict societies by arguing that the dilemma is defined by the extent to which the actual achievement of the political goals of transition is a necessary condition for the long-term observance and implementation of justice. <br /><br />While in many cases the blind criminal justice does not enhance, and even militates against, the achievement of political transitions, an understanding of transitional justice as a fundamentally political process is novel, controversial and a concept which may shape the future of transitional justice. <br /><br />This collection contributes to developing this concept both theoretically and through concrete and current case studies from the worlds most pronounced crisis spots for transitional justice.

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About the Author

Aleksander Fatic is Research Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia. His publications include Punishment and Restorative Crime-Handling (1995), Reconciliation via the War Crimes Tribunal? (2000) and International Criminal Tribunals: An Assessment (2015).<br /><br />Klaus Bachmann, Professor of Political Science at SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland, specializes in transitional justice, the politics of dealing with the past and modern European history. Previous assignments were with the University of Vienna, Bordeaux, Stellenbosch (South Africa), Renmin (Bejing), Johns Hopkins (Washington, DC), Wroclaw and Bordeaux. Together with Aleksandar Fatic he is the author of The UN International Criminal Tribunals. Transition without Justice? with Routledge in 2015 and with Peter Lambertz and Thomas Sparrow-Botero he co-authored When Justice Meets Politics: Independence and autonomy of ad hoc international criminal tribunals, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2013. He has been doing research in and on South-Eastern Europe, the southern parts of Africa, Rwanda and Central and Eastern Europe.<br /><br />Igor Lyubashenko is Assistant Professor at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. He holds a PhD in political science from Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin. His academic interests focus on politics and international relations in Eastern Europe. More recently, he focuses his research on the problem of transitional justice and different aspects of transition to democracy in post-communist states (in particular Poland and Ukraine). He is the author of Transitional Justice in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine: Swimming Upstream, Frankfurt, Peter Lang 2017.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786605899
• ISBN 13: 9781786605894
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248