Description
Global Civil Society 2011 combines activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles to promote, negotiate and deliver justice in a global frame without a central authority. In their engagement with cultural diversity and their networked communication the contributors rethink and remake justice beyond the confines of the nation state.
Table of Contents
Introduction: M.Albrow & H.Seckinelgin PART I: FORGIVE AND FORGET? COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE Introduction; M.Kaldor & S.Selchow Seeking Justice, Honour and Dignity: Movement for the Victims of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery; H.Shin Addressing Injustice through State, Local Culture and Global Civil Society: The White Terror Incidents in Taiwan; F.-L.Shih Reconciliation and Transitional Justice: the Contribution of Forgiveness Towards Social Healing; R.Kattumuri & A.K.Holm Historians and Conflict Resolution: The Challenge of Advocacy to Scholarship; E.Barkan PART II: NETWORKING FOR GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY Introduction; H.Anheier Anti-Slavery and Redefining Justice; K.Bales & J.Sarich Pathways Towards Tax Justice; M.Kohonen, A.Waris & J.Christensen Access of Self-help Groups and Grassroots Organisations to the Transnational Arena: an Alternative Face of Global Civil Society; M.Vielajus PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Introduction; H.Seckinelgin The Global Climate Justice Movement; D.Guerrero Community-Based Environmental Governance and Local Justice; M.Sekher & G.Sahu Food Sovereignty and Food Justice: A Global Perspective; L.Hartsell & C.-K.Kim PART IV: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE Introduction; M.Glasius Global Civil Society and Transitional Justice; I.Rangelov & R.Teitel Community-Based Justice and Reconciliation: The Peace and Reconciliation Movement in Sierra Leone; S.Goinhas Seeing Justice Done: Outreach and Civil Society at the Special Court for Sierra Leone; S.Kendall & A.Sesay Global Civil Societies in Action: Global Social Justice in the Making?; S.Bellina PART V: STATE, NATION AND GLOBAL JUSTICE Introduction; C.Sengupta Japan's 'Article 9' Renunciation of War as a Model for a Just and Peaceful Global Civil Society; M.Creighton Carrying Out Social Justice for North Korean Refugees in South Korea: Global and Local Spheres of Civil Society; G.-S.Park & C.S.Moon The Bottom-up Pursuit of Justice: the Case of Two Burmas; M.Zarni Globalisation and KoreanActivism in Japan; H.Shin State, Civil Society and Justice: the Case of India; R.Mutatkar
