Anders / Zenker Transition and Justice

Negotiating the Terms of New Beginnings in Africa
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-94476-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Development and Change Special Issues

Transition and Justice examines a series of cases fromacross the African continent where peaceful 'newbeginnings' were declared after periods of violence and wheretransitional justice institutions helped define justice and the newsocio-political order.
* Offers a new perspective on transition and justice in Africatranscending the institutional limits of transitional justice
* Covers a wide range of situations, and presents a broad rangeof sites where past injustices are addressed
* Examines cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' havebeen declared after periods of violence
* Addresses fundamental questions about transitions and justicein societies characterized by a high degree of external involvementand internal fragmentation

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anders, Gerhard

Zenker, Olaf

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii
1 Transition and Justice: An Introduction 1
Gerhard Anders and Olaf Zenker
2 Making Good Citizens from Bad Life in Post-Genocide Rwanda 21
Simon Turner
3 Performing Repatriation? The Role of Refugee Aid in Shaping New Beginnings in Mauritania 41
Marion Fresia
4 Conflicting Logics of Exceptionality: New Beginnings and the Problem of Police Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa 65
Steffen Jensen
5 The 2011 Toilet Wars in South Africa: Justice and Transition between the Exceptional and the Everyday after Apartheid 85
Steven Robins
6 New Law against an Old State: Land Restitution as a Transition to Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa? 113
Olaf Zenker
7 Transitional Justice, States of Emergency and Business as Usual in Sierra Leone 135
Gerhard Anders
8 'When we Walk Out, What was it all About?': Views on New Beginnings from within the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 153
Nigel Eltringham
9 New Start or False Start? The ICC and Electoral Violence in Kenya 175
Sabine H¨ohn
10 Justice without Peace? International Justice and Conflict Resolution in Northern Uganda 199
Kimberley Armstrong
11 The Violence of Peace: Ethnojustice in Northern Uganda 219
Adam Branch
Index 241

Über Autor(innen)

Gerhard Anders is lecturer at the Centre of AfricanStudies, University of Edinburgh. He has conducted research onthe implementation of the good governance agenda, internationalcriminal justice and transitional justice in Africa. He isco-editor of Corruption and the Secret of Law: A LegalAnthropological Perspective (2007) and authorof In the Shadow of Good Governance: An Ethnography ofCivil Service Reform in Africa (2010).Olaf Zenker is Junior Professor at the Institute ofSocial and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin. Hehas done research on Irish language revivalism and ethnicity inNorthern Ireland and currently studies the moral modernity of thenew South African state in the context of its land restitutionprocess. He is the author of Irish/ness Is All Around Us:Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in NorthernIreland (2013) and co-editor of The State and theParadox of Customary Law in Africa (2015).