Grassroots Activism and the Evolution of Transitional Justice: The Families of the Disappeared

Human Rights

Grassroots Activism and the Evolution of Transitional Justice: The Families of the Disappeared

By Iosif Kovras
Cambridge University Press April 2017

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9781107166653
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Cambridge University Press
Publication
April 2017
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Hardback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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 analysis of four challenging case studies - Lebanon, Cyprus, South Africa and Chile - each representative of a different approach to transitional justice.

These studies reveal how variations in transitional justice policies addressing the disappeared occur: explaining why victims' groups in some countries are caught in silence, while others bring perpetrators to account. Conceiving of transitional justice as a dynamic process, Kovras traces the different phases of truth recovery in post-transitional societies, giving substance not only to the 'why' but also the 'when' and 'how' of this kind of campaign against impunity.

This book is essential reading for all those interested in the development of transitional justice and human rights.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Part I. Methods and Theory:
2. Methodological and theoretical innovations in the use of databases in transitional justice

Part II. Global and Historical Perspectives:
3. The daughters of Antigone in Latin America: Argentinian mothers
4. 'Forensic cascade': the technologies and institutions of truth
5. The 'missing' tale of human rights

Part III. National Perspectives:
6. Institutionalized silences for the missing in Lebanon
7. Cyprus: the bright side of a frozen conflict
8. Truth commissions and the missing: TRC's 'unfinished business'
9. Poetic justice: the Chilean desaparecidos
10. Conclusions: five lessons for transitional justice.
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