Transitional Justice in the Asia-Pacific - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 110704037X ISBN 13: 9781107040373

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The question of how the human rights violations of previous regimes and past periods of conflict ought to be addressed is one of the most pressing concerns facing governments and policy makers today. New democracies and states in the fragile post-conflict peace-settlement phase are confronted by the need to make crucial decisions about whether to hold perpetrators of human rights violations accountable for their actions and, if so, the mechanisms they ought to employ to best achieve that end. This is the first book to examine the ways in which states and societies in the Asia-Pacific region have navigated these difficult waters. Drawing together several of the world's leading experts on transitional justice with Asia-Pacific regional and country specialists it provides an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the region as well as detailed analysis of the cases of Cambodia; Sri Lanka; Aceh, Indonesia; South Korea; the Solomon Islands; and East Timor.

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About the Authors

Renee Jeffery is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University. She is the author of The Persistence of Amnesties in World Politics (2014), Reason and Emotion in International Ethics (2014), Evil and International Relations: Human Suffering in an Age of Terror (2008) and Hugo Grotius in International Thought (2006), and the editor of Confronting Evil in International Relations: Ethical Responses to Problems of Moral Agency (2008).

Hun Joon Kim is a Senior Research Fellow at Griffith University. His PhD dissertation, 'Expansion of Transitional Justice Measures: A Comparative Analysis of its Causes', was selected as the winner of the 2009 American Political Science Association Best Dissertation Award (Human Rights Section). He is the author of The Massacres at Mt Halla: Sixty Years of Truth-Seeking in South Korea (2014).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110704037X
• ISBN 13: 9781107040373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 311
• Editor: Jeffery Renée, Kim Hun Joon