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Human rights violations leave deep scars on people, societies, and nations. Since the early 1990s, international rights groups have argued that resolving the violence of the past through instruments of transitional justice such as truth commissions is a necessary condition for a peaceful future. But how can nations ensure that these tribunals are the best path to reconciliation? The Politics of Acknowledgement develops a theoretical framework of acknowledgement with which to evaluate truth commissions. Rather than applying this framework to successful tribunals, Joanna Quinn uses it to analyze the difficulties encountered and the ultimate failure of two poorly understood truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti. The failure of these commissions reveals that if reconciliation is to be achieved, acknowledgement of past violence and harm � by both victims and perpetrators � must come before goals such as forgiveness, social trust, civic engagement, and social cohesion.
Truth commissions --- Truth commissions. --- Commissions, Truth --- Reconciliation commissions --- Governmental investigations --- Human rights
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Human rights --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- Uganda --- Haiti
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'Reconciliation(s)' considers the definition of the concept of reconciliation itself, focusing on the definitional dialogue that arises from the attempts to situate reconciliation within a theoretical and analytical framework.
Crimes against humanity --- Human rights --- Justice, Administration of --- Peace-building --- Reconciliation --- Restorative justice --- Transitional justice --- Political aspects
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Transitional justice, commonly defined as the process of confronting the legacies of past human rights abuses and atrocities, often does not produce the kinds of results that are imagined. In multiethnic, divided societies like Uganda, people who have not been directly affected by harm, atrocity, and abuse go about their daily lives without ever confronting what happened in the past. When victims and survivors raise their voices to ask for help, or when plans are announced to address that harm, it is this unaffected population that see such plans as pointless. They complain about what they perceive as the "needless" time and money that will be spent to fix something that they see as unimportant and, ultimately, block any restorative processes.Joanna R. Quinn spent twenty years working in Uganda and uses its particular case as a lens through which she examines the failure of deeply divided societies to acknowledge the past. She proposes that the needed remedy is the development of a very rudimentary understanding—what she calls "thin sympathy"—among individuals in each of the different factions and groups of the other's suffering prior to establishing any transitional justice process. Based on 440 extensive interviews with elites and other thought leaders in government, traditional institutions, faith groups, and NGOs, as well as with women and children throughout the country, Thin Sympathy argues that the acquisition of a basic understanding of what has taken place in the past will enable the development of a more durable transitional justice process.
Postwar reconstruction --- Restorative justice --- Sympathy --- Transitional justice --- Social aspects --- Lord's Resistance Army. --- Uganda --- Social conditions --- Human Rights. --- Law. --- Political Science. --- Public Policy.
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'Reconciliation(s)' considers the definition of the concept of reconciliation itself, focusing on the definitional dialogue that arises from the attempts to situate reconciliation within a theoretical and analytical framework.
Crimes against humanity. --- Human rights. --- Justice, Administration of. --- Peace-building. --- Reconciliation --- Restorative justice. --- Transitional justice. --- Political aspects.
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"This book considers the relative utility of "thin sympathy" through the lens of Uganda, where conflict and division have festered for more than half a century. The book proposes a hypothesis that suggests that the development of even a very rudimentary understanding among individuals from each of the different factions and groups-of what has happened, of the basic facts of the other's suffering-could be the necessary condition for promoting not just peaceful coexistence but a society's ability to move forward together. And although many assume that this understanding already exists, the author's work and the work of others has clearly demonstrated that there is a significant gap in that kind of perception across different groups. In Uganda, for example, very few people know much of anything about what happened in Northern Uganda between the government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army, and they know still less about the difficult experiences of northerners during the conflict. In fact, there is little cross-group knowledge between the 65 different ethnocultural groups of each other's experiences. Getting past that knowledge gap would allow them to at least understand why something like transitional justice might be necessary"--
Transitional justice --- Restorative justice --- Postwar reconstruction --- Sympathy --- Social aspects --- Lord's Resistance Army. --- Uganda --- Social conditions
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A comprehensive and helpful guide explains what parts of the brain are responsible for causing obsessive compulsive disorders, what sufferers can do to stop it, and what family members can do to help. List examples and cases studies. A good tool for OCD sufferers to use in understanding and explaining to others how OCD works.
Animation (cinéma) --- Dessin --- Névroses obsessionnelles --- Animation (Cinematography) --- Drawing --- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder --- Technique --- Technique. --- Animation (cinéma) --- Névroses obsessionnelles
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What if we could change the conditions in post-conflict/post-authoritarian countries to make transitional justice work better? This book argues that if the context in countries in need of transitional justice can be ameliorated before processes of transitional justice are established, they are more likely to meet with success. As the contributors reveal, this can be done in different ways. At the attitudinal level, changing the broader social ethos can improve the chances that societies will be more receptive to transitional justice. At the institutional level, the capacity of mechanisms and institutions can be strengthened to offer more support to transitional justice processes. Drawing on lessons learned in Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Gambia, Lebanon, Palestine, and Uganda, the book explores ways to better the conditions in post-conflict/post-authoritarian countries to improve the success of transitional justice. Samar El-Masri is Adjunct Professor at both the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at The University of Western Ontario and the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada. Tammy Lambert is Researcher in Political Science and Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at The University of Western Ontario. Joanna R. Quinn is Director of the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at The University of Western Ontario. This book emerges from the research program of the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at The University of Western Ontario.
Transitional justice. --- Justice --- Human rights --- International relations. --- Peace. --- Democracy. --- Social justice. --- Human rights. --- International Relations Theory. --- Peace Studies. --- Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Equality --- Self-government --- Political science --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Peace-building --- Security, International --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Law and legislation
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Sociology --- Political systems --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Human rights --- Polemology --- mensenrechten --- sociologie --- democratie --- vrede --- internationale betrekkingen
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