After Atrocity Examples from Africa: The Right to Education and the Role of Law in Restoration, Recovery, and Accountability
by George, Erika R.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Loyola University Chicago International Law Review 5:59ff “… In recent years, there has been a proliferation of international legal institutions to respond to the challenges confronted by many countries emerging from armed conflict, mass violence, or systematic human...
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The Future of the Past in South Africa:On the Legacy of TRC
by Herwitz, Daniel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Social Research. 72(3):531 “VOLUME 5 OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN TRUTH AND RECONCIIIATION contains a list of all the victims of gross human rights violations whose names appeared in the commission’s database at that time (August 30,1998).’ The list is arranged in...
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Facework in Offenders and Victims in a Role Play Simulation of Restorative Justice
by Kiefer, Rebecca Parham
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Dissertation submitted for degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Virginia Commonwealth University. This dissertation study arose from questions I had from my thesis (Kiefer, 2004) which examined apology, a primary remedial facework strategy or impression management technique. In...
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Writing Guatemala’s genocide: truth and reconciliation commission reports and Christianity
by O’Neill, Kevin Lewis
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Journal of Genocide Research, 7(3) This investigation grows out of a close textual analysis of two TRC reports. Both address Guatemala’s civil war (ca. 1960–1996), a genocidal conflict that placed the country’s indigenous population between a militarized...
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Cinema, Race, and Justice: A Qualitative Analysis of Selected Themes
by Thompson, Katherine Clay
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts in Criminal Justice and Criminology. East Tennessee State University. The purpose of this study was to examine 7 different crime and justice films and provide a content analysis incorporating restorative justice and peacemaking...
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Exploration of the Association between Apology and Forgiveness amongst Victims of Human Rights Violations
by Allan, Alfred
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Behavioral Sciences and the Law 24: 87–102. Forgiving may lead to an improvement of mental health, and from a therapeutic jurisprudence perspective it is important to establish what aspects of judicial procedures can be changed to promote forgiving. The literature...
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DEONTOLOGICAL RETRIBUTIVISM AND THE LEGAL PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL JURISPRUDENCE: THE CASE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA
by Fink, Jason Benjamin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Journal of African Law, 49, 2, P.101. School of Oriental and African Studies. In what follows, I present the argument that in the context of postgenocidal Rwandan society, the imposition of a formal legal structure by the United Nations in the form of a criminal tribunal fails...
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COMING FULL CIRCLE: THE USE OF SENTENCING CIRCLES AS FEDERAL STATUTORY SENTENCING REFORM FOR NATIVE AMERICAN OFFENDERS
by Johnson, Megan Lynn
June 4, 2015
Source: (-0001) Thomas Jefferson Law Review. Vol. 29:265 Part I of this Note summarizes the relationship between the United States government and the Native American tribes in regard to the regulation and oversight of tribal justice systems. Part II explores how the United States government...
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Media representations of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and their commitment to reconciliation.
by Verdoolaege, Annelies
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) Journal of African Cultural Studies, Volume 17, Number 2. P.181 The success and prestige of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa can largely be attributed to the media attention. The extensive media coverage has been very positive for the TRC, especially with...
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Retributive justice, restorative justice, and forgiveness: An experimental psychophysiology analysis
by Worthington, Everett L
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 44 Pp. 10-25 This experiment assessed the emotional self-reports and physiology of justice outcomes and forgiveness responses to a common crime, using a three Justice (retributive, restorative, no justice) X 2 Forgive (forgiveness, none)...
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An Assessment of Contemporary Models of Forgiveness
by Musekura, Rev. Celestin
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Dissertation submitted for the degree Doctor of Philosophy.Dallas Theological Seminary. This study examines recent psychological and theological models of forgiveness and introduces the concept of communal forgiveness nurtured and mediated through the community of faith. The...
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The Ambiguous Role of Religion in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
by Shore, Megan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) PEACE & CHANGE, Vol. 31, No. 3 This article examines the ambiguous role that religion, particularly Christianity, played in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and in South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy. On the one hand,...
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After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: challenges facing the historian in a democratic South Africa
by Pisani, Kobus
June 4, 2015
Source: (2007) Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, Jaargang 47 No.1 The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was mandated to establish “the truth” about the causes, nature and extent of gross violations of human rights in the country between 1960 and 1994. This...
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A Study of Juvenile Drug Offenders in The Central Observation and Protection Center, Bangkok, Thailand
by Lerdtomornsakul, Unisa
June 4, 2015
Source: (2006) Dissertation submitted for the degree Doctor of Philosophy.Sam Houston State University. The purpose of this study is to (1) provide a descriptive analysis of the entire population of drug offenders in the Bangkok Central Observation Center (COPC); (2) conduct a comparative...
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