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What Are Transitions For? Atrocity, International Criminal Justice, And The Political, Paulo Barrozo
What Are Transitions For? Atrocity, International Criminal Justice, And The Political, Paulo Barrozo
Paulo Barrozo
This essay offers an answer to the question of what societies afflicted by atrocities ought to transition into. The answer offered is able to better direct the evaluation of previous models and the design of new models of transitional justice. Into what, then, should transitional justice transition? I argue in this essay that transitional justice should be a transition into the political, understood in its robust liberalism version. I further argue that the most significant part of transitions ought to happen in the minds of the members of political communities, precisely where the less tangible and yet most important dimension …
Human Rights, Revolution, And Reform In The Muslim World, Anthony Chase
Human Rights, Revolution, And Reform In The Muslim World, Anthony Chase
Anthony Chase
The book rejects popular arguments that there is an incompatibility between human rights and the Muslim world and details ways in which human rights have long impacted the Muslim world’s political and social life, with revolutionary potential.