Description
Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order.
- Offers a new perspective on transition and justice in Africa transcending the institutional limits of transitional justice
- Covers a wide range of situations, and presents a broad range of sites where past injustices are addressed
- Examines cases where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ have been declared after periods of violence
- Addresses fundamental questions about transitions and justice in societies characterized by a high degree of external involvement and internal fragmentation
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
1 Transition and Justice: An Introduction 1
Gerhard Anders and Olaf Zenker
2 Making Good Citizens from Bad Life in Post-Genocide Rwanda 21
Simon Turner
3 Performing Repatriation? The Role of Refugee Aid in Shaping New Beginnings in Mauritania 41
Marion Fresia
4 Conflicting Logics of Exceptionality: New Beginnings and the Problem of Police Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa 65
Steffen Jensen
5 The 2011 Toilet Wars in South Africa: Justice and Transition between the Exceptional and the Everyday after Apartheid 85
Steven Robins
6 New Law against an Old State: Land Restitution as a Transition to Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa? 113
Olaf Zenker
7 Transitional Justice, States of Emergency and Business as Usual in Sierra Leone 135
Gerhard Anders
8 ‘When we Walk Out, What was it all About?’: Views on New Beginnings from within the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 153
Nigel Eltringham
9 New Start or False Start? The ICC and Electoral Violence in Kenya 175
Sabine H¨ohn
10 Justice without Peace? International Justice and Conflict Resolution in Northern Uganda 199
Kimberley Armstrong
11 The Violence of Peace: Ethnojustice in Northern Uganda 219
Adam Branch
Index 241
