Passion, Constraint, Law and Fortuna: The Human Rights Challenge to Chilean Democracy
by Barahona de Brito, Alexandra
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Nigel Biggar, ed., Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict. Expanded and updated. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 177-208. Alexandra Barahona de Brito characterizes the Chilean response to past human rights violations under the...
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Does the Truth Heal? A Psychological Perspective on Political Strategies for Dealing with the Legacy of Political Violence
by Hamber, Brandon
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Nigel Biggar, ed., Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict. Expanded and updated. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 155-174. According to Brandon Hamber, wars in the last 100 years have moved increasingly from conflicts between...
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Putting the Past in Its Place: Issues of Victimhood and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland’s Peace Process
by Smyth, Marie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Nigel Biggar, ed., Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict. Expanded and updated. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 125-153. Statistically speaking, the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s can be...
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National and Community Reconciliation: Competing Agendas in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
by van der Merwe, Hugo
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Nigel Biggar, ed., Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict. Expanded and updated. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 101-124. When a society goes through change from a repressive, violent past to a more democratic, stable present...
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Innovating Responses to the Past: Human Rights Institutions
by Minow, Martha
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Nigel Biggar, ed., Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict. Expanded and updated. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 87-100. As Martha Minow remarks, the twentieth century was marked by mass violence, genocide, and torture, along...
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The Philosophy and Practice of Dealing with the Past: Some Conceptual and Normative Issues
by Forsberg, Tuomas
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Nigel Biggar, ed., Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict. Expanded and updated. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 65-84. In the 1990s many countries experienced transitions from more authoritarian and repressive regimes to more...
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Politics and Forgiveness
by Elshtain, Jean Bethke
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Nigel Biggar, ed., Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict. Expanded and updated. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 45-64. As Jean Bethke Elshtain recalls for us, Hannah Arendt asserted that forgiveness was the greatest...
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Where and When in Political Life Is Justice Served by Forgiveness?
by Shriver Jr., Donald W.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Nigel Biggar, ed., Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict. Expanded and updated. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 25-43. Though American culture tends to be future-oriented, without a strong sense of history, it is vital for...
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Making Peace or Doing Justice: Must We Choose?
by Biggar, Nigel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) In Nigel Biggar, ed., Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict. Expanded and updated. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 3-24. Beginning with the August 15, 1998, incident in which the Real IRA exploded a bomb in the town center of...
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Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict
by Biggar, Nigel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) Expanded and updated. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. In recent years, the topic of transitional states and justice has become quite fashionable. The amount of literature on the subject continues to grow considerably. At the same time, it remains a critical topic...
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Summary of the national evaluation of the Restorative Justice in Schools Programme
by Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) London: Youth Justice Board for England and Wales. Downloaded 29 April 2005. In May 2000, the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales launched a pilot initiative in two schools in the London borough of Lambeth using restorative justice conferences to tackle exclusions,...
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National Evaluation of the Restorative Justice in Schools Programme
by Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, Seumas
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) London: Youth Justice Board for England and Wales. Downloaded 29 April 2005. The Restorative Justice in Schools programme consisted of nine local Yots working across 26 schools (20 secondary and 6 primary). The contract to evaluate these initiatives was awarded to Partners in...
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Criminal Justice Act 2003: Guidance for Youth Offending Teams
by Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
June 4, 2015
Source: (2005) London: Youth Justice Board for England and Wales. Downloaded 29 April 2005. From 4 April 2005, key aspects of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (the Act) will come into effect. The majority of the changes that it introduces will apply to adult offenders only. These include the...
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The summary of the initial report on the Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme
by Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
June 4, 2015
Source: (2004) London: Youth Justice Board for England and Wales. Downloaded 29 April 2005. The Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme (ISSP) is the most robust community programme available for young offenders in England and Wales. It is targeted at persistent young offenders and...
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European network of national contact points for restorative justice
by European Parliament
June 4, 2015
Source: (2003) P5_TA-PROV(2003)0147. European Parliament. Downloaded 29 April 2005. European Parliament legislative resolution on the initiative by the Kingdom of Belgium with a view to the adoption of a Council Decision setting up a European network of national contact points for restorative...
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