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