Issues of justice and reconciliation in complex political emergencies: Conceptualising reconciliation, justice and peace

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 239-255

  Pankhurst, Donna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RIGHTS; PEACEKEEPING; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 0032933078     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436599914027     Document Type: Article

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4. Adapted from the New Collins English Dictionary.
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9. This view has now become widely accepted; a spokesperson from the US State Department, speaking of Latin American countries which have a history of cycles of impunity and vengeance, said that there is now a 'need to acknowledge the suffering of victims and honestly reckon with the past to make a successful transition to democracy. Cited in Catholic Institute far International Relations, News, London, May 1996.
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11. Kritz, Transitional Justice; and P B Hayner, 'Commissioning the truth: further research questions', Third World Quarterly, 17(1), 1996, pp 19-29.
12. On South Africa, see G Minkley, C Rassool & L Witz, 'Thresholds, gateways and spectacles: journeying through South African hidden pasts and histories in the last decade of the twentieth century', unpublished paper, Department of History, University of Western Cape, 1996.
13. R Mani, 'Conflict resolution, justice and the law; rebuilding the rule of law in the aftermath of complex political emergencies', paper presented at the British International Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 1997, p 12.
14. Ibid, p 14.
15. For example, C Scherrer, 'Central Africa: conflict impact assessment and policy options', Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, Working Paper 25, 1997, pp 37, who recommends some version of it for Rwanda.
16. Asmal et al, Reconciliation Through Truth, p 24.
17. Minkley et al, 'Thresholds, gateways and spectacles', p 10.
18. For example, the Independent Projects Trust, which trains community mediators in KwaZulu-Natal. See G Caine. 'Training for peace', Development in Practice, 7(4), 1997, pp 497-499.
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21. Mani, 'Conflict resolution, justice and the law', p 24.
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25. Ibid, pp 24-25.
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29. Bayner, 'Commissioning the truth'; M Stephen, 'Ethnocide: discourse and perception', Review of African Political Economy, 22(65), 1993, pp 367-371; and Schemer, 'Central Africa'.
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31. Clarke & Herbst, Learning from Somalia p 46.
32. Wilson, The People's Conscience?, pp 24-25.
33. Clarke & Herbst, Learning from Somalia, p 21.
34. Wilson, The People's Conscience?, p 38.
35. Amnesty, June 1997; Jan/Feb 1998.
36. O Greene, 'Tackling light weapons diffusion: responses at the international level', paper presented at the British International Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 1997.
37. Kritz, Transitional Justice, p 20.