Transitional Justice, Culture, and Society - Beyond Outreach

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-911400-02-1
Verlag: Social Science Research Council Publications

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 831 g

Reihe: Advancing Transitional Justice

Transitional justice processes have a fundamental public dimension. Their impact depends in part on the social support they receive. For this reason, transitional justice bodies have increasingly implemented outreach programs.

Beyond the role of outreach, however, other initiatives such as media and cultural interventions can strengthen, but also in some cases undermine, the public resonance of transitional justice. How can media and art be used to engage society in discussions about accountability and redress? How do media influence social perceptions and attitudes toward the legacy of the past? To what extent is social engagement in the public sphere necessary to advance the political transformation that transitional justice measures try to promote? Examining the roles that society and culture play in transitional justice contexts, the essays in this volume focus on the ways in which communicative practices can raise public awareness of and reflection on the legacies of mass abuse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramírez-Barat, Clara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
On Making the Invisible Visible: The Role of Cultural Interventions in Transitional Justice Processes
Pablo de Greiff
Introduction
Transitional Justice and the Public Sphere
Clara Ramírez-Barat
Part One: Outreach in Transitional Justice
Chapter
Implementing an Engagement Model: Outreach at the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Maya Karwande
Chapter
Making Justice Visible: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Domestic War Crimes Trials Outreach
Stephanie A. Barbour
Chapter
Reaching Out to Victims and Communities: The CAVR’s Experiences in Timor-Leste
Patrick Burgess and Galuh Wandita
Chapter
Between Protection and Participation: Involving Children and Youth in Transitional Justice Processes
Virginie Ladisch and Clara Ramírez-Barat
Part Two: Conflict, Media, and Justice
Chapter
Democratization of Media in Post-Conflict Situations: Reporting on ICTY War Crimes Trials in Serbia
Nidžara Ahmetaševic and Tanja Matic
Chapter
The Uses and Abuses of Media: Rwanda before and after the Genocide
Timothy Longman
Chapter
The Media’s Potential in Developing Social Awareness for Justice: The Example of Interactive Radio for Justice
Wanda E. Hall
Chapter
Using Media to Foster Mutual Respect and Understanding among Children in a Post-Conflict Region: The Rruga Sesam/Ulica Sezam in Kosovo
Charlotte F. Cole and June H. Lee
Chapter
“Friend” of the Court: New Media and Transitional Justice
Camille Crittenden
Part Three: Art, Culture, and Transitional Justice
Chapter
From Tears to Energy: Early Uses of Participatory Theater in Afghanistan
Nadia Siddiqui and Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn
Chapter
Reverberations of Testimony: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Art and Media
Catherine M. Cole
Chapter
Photography and Transitional Justice: Evidence, Postcard, Placard, Token of Absence Eduardo González Cueva and M. Florencia Librizzi
Chapter
Visions of Justice and Accountability: Transitional Justice and Film
Carolyn Patty Blum
Chapter
Memoryworks/Memory Works
Louis Bickford
Chapter
Literature and Experiences of Harm
Carlos Thiebaut Luis-André
Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Clara Ramírez-Barat is a senior associate in the Research Unit at ICTJ. She is the recipient of an MA in philosophy from Columbia University and a PhD in philosophy from the University Carlos III of Madrid. For the past ten years, her research has focused on different aspects of transitional justice and democratic theory.