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The book will appeal to a diverse audience, including advocates and sceptics, academics and practitioners, transitional justice specialists and readers from other sectors (development, peace-building and human rights), and to a genuinely multi-disciplinary cohort of scholars. Its value lies in its contribution to both conceptual and practice-based thinking on transformative justice.

The book will appeal to a diverse audience, including advocates and sceptics, academics and practitioners, transitional justice specialists and readers from other sectors (development, peace-building and human rights), and to a genuinely multi-disciplinary cohort of scholars. Its value lies in its contribution to both conceptual and practice-based thinking on transformative justice.

This volume provides an assessment of human rights-based approaches to development.

This title explores a broad set of issues raised by political transition and transitional justice through the prism of the South African TRC. South Africa's story has wider relevance because it helped to launch constitutional human rights and transitional justice as global discourses.

This volume brings together distinguished scholars to explore the merging of human rights and development agendas at local, national and international levels. They examine how the growth of human rights into development affects organisational change, operational change and the role of relevant actors in bringing about change.

This volume aims to identify what difference a rights-based approach makes in practice, and to contribute to a greater common understanding of what the rights-based approach means. These are urgent tasks given the amount of funding for and organizational investment in human rights. Addressing the range of areas influenced by this approach, the volume spans humanitarian relief, development and conflict resolution. It concludes that not only is ...

In a world that is increasingly disillusioned with formal politics, people are no longer prepared to wait for governments and international institutions to act on human rights concerns. This book identifies activism as a key means of realizing human rights and as a new form of politics. Fighting for Human Rights documents and compares successful high profile campaigns to cancel debt in the developing world, ban landmines and set up the Interna...

The Era of Transitional Justice: The Aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and Beyond explores the broader issues raised by political transition and transitional justice through the prism of the TRC and transition in South Africa.

Writing as Resistance charts a journey through the inner workings of apartheid, through encounters imprisonment, exile, homecoming that crucially defined its violent reign and ultimate overthrow. This is a study of linked encounters through life stories, which provide a window between apartheid as ideology and as lived experience, and are portrayed as ultimately playing a part in transforming defeat into victory, oppression into democracy thro...

This volume brings together distinguished scholars to explore the merging of human rights and development agendas at local, national and international levels. They examine how the growth of human rights into development affects organisational change, operational change and the role of relevant actors in bringing about change.

Examines how political transformations affect people's memories and identities.

Examines how political transformations affect people's memories and identities.