Transitional Justice in the Asia-Pacific, 9781107040373
Hardcover
Asia-Pacific grapples with past wrongs: Justice, accountability, and fragile peace.

Transitional Justice in the Asia-Pacific

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  • Hardcover

    311 pages

  • Release Date

    11 November 2013

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Summary

Navigating the Past: Transitional Justice in the Asia-Pacific

How can governments address past human rights violations and conflicts? This is a critical question for new democracies and states emerging from conflict. This book offers a groundbreaking examination of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region. Leading experts provide an overview of transitional justice processes and in-depth analyses of Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Aceh, Indonesia, South Korea, the Solomon Islands, and East Timor.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781107040373
ISBN-10:110704037X
Author:Renée Jeffery, Hun Joon Kim
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:311
Release Date:11 November 2013
Weight:550g
Dimensions:235mm x 157mm x 21mm
About The Author

Renée Jeffery

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).

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