Leebaw, Bronwyn Anne.

Judging state-sponsored violence, imagining political change / Bronwyn Anne Leebaw. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - xi, 210 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-204) and index.

Introduction : transitional justice and the'gray zone' -- Human rights legalism and the legacy of Nuremberg -- A different kind of justice : South Africa's alternative to legalism -- Political judgment and transitional justice : actors and spectators --Rethinking restorative justice -- Remembering resistance -- Conclusion : the shadows of the past.

'This book offers a new way to think about the legacies of the Nuremberg Trials and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which transformed the theory and practice of transitional justice'--

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International police.
Transitional justice.
Political violence.
Crimes against humanity.
Intervention (International law)
Truth commissions--History.--South Africa
War crime trials--Germany--Nuremberg.