The contours of memory in post-conflict societies: Enacting public remembrance of the bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland
by Johnson, Nuala C
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Cultural geographies 19(2) 237-258 Drawing on the theoretical insights of Paul Ricoeur this paper investigates the geographies of public remembrance in a post-conflict society. In Northern Ireland, where political divisions have found expression through acts of extreme violence...
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Taking care of unfinished business and business of the 21st century: What an institute for advanced study in civil rights, preferably in the academic Deep South should examine
by Stanfield John H., II
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) American Behavioral Scientist 56(10) 1434-1456 This article examines the work of an imaginary Institute for Advanced Study in Civil Rights as a model of changed oriented knowledge production, preferably in a major research university in the Deep South. The work of this Institute...
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State and non-state justice systems in Afghanistan: The need for synergy
by Wardak, Ali
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) U. Pa. J. Int’l L. Vol.33:5 The long Afghan conflict has resulted in an extensive destruction of Afghanistan’s state justice institutions that existed prior to the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (“USSR”) invasion of the country in December...
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Rwanda: Rough macro-sociology of knowledge notes on a symbolic emergence of a post- cold war African nation
by Stanfield John H., II
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) American Behavioral Scientist 56(10) 1326-1342 Historical oriented macro-sociology of knowledge analyses of the origins and development of nations and other societies and global formations are usually confined to the examination of the United States and European countries and...
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Repairing Historical Wrongs and the End of Empire
by Butt, Daniel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Social & Legal studies 21(2) 227-242 This article addresses the claim that some contemporary states may possess obligations to pay reparations as a result of the lasting effects of colonialism. Claims about the harms and benefits caused by colonialism must make some kind of...
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Reducing juvenile detention: Notes from an experiment on Staten Island
by Fishman, Nancy L
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) New York Law School Law Review V.56 1476-1500 A young woman, Anna, fifteen years old, stands in the courtroom in front of a New York City Family Court judge.’ She had been arrested two months earlier for resisting arrest and obstruction of governmental administration...
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Reconciliation and remembering: (how) does it work?
by Rigney, Ann
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Memory studies 5(3) 251-258 Public acts of remembrance are as much about shaping the future as about recollecting the past. This interplay between recollection and future-building has been implicit in much of the work done in the field of cultural memory in the last years. It...
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Protecting the rights of the child: Regulating restorative justice and indigenous practices in Southern Sudan and East Timor
by Banks, Cyndi
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) International journal of Children’s Rights 19 167-193 Th e Convention on the Rights of the Child has globalized child rights and child protection by setting international norms, which include a mandate to apply restorative justice practices in juvenile justice laws and...
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Preliminary outcomes of a preadjudication diversion initiative for juvenile justice involved youth with mental health needs in Texas
by Colwell, Brian
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 39 No. 4 447-460 Estimates of mental health disorders among youth involved with the juvenile justice system range from 50% to 75%, while general population prevalence is 9% to 20%. The system is ill-equipped to supervise these juveniles, and...
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Policies and Programming for safer school: Are “Anti-bullying†approaches impeding education for peacebuilding
by Bickmore, Kathy
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Education polict 25(4) 648-687 Prevailing anti-violence practices in public schools, especially in the context of recently increased emphasis on bullying, often allocate more resources to surveillance and control than to facilitation of healthy relationships or conflict/ peace...
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Plowing in hope: A three part framework for incorporating restorative justice into sentencing and correctional systems
by Branham, Lynn S.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) William Mitchell Law Review. Vol 38:4 1284-1310 Who among you has not been the victim of a crime? Did anyone ever steal from you? Burglarize your home? Intentionally push you? How did you feel? I could tell you how I felt when I was victimized by a crimewhen, for example, a...
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Nonviolent law? Linking nonviolent social change and truth and reconciliation commissions
by McCarty III, James W.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) West Virginia Law Review. Vol 114: 970-1003 One of the unique features of the twentieth century was the widespread use of organized nonviolent action and civil disobedience in the pursuit of dramatic social and political change around the world. In the West, the most wellknown...
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Navigating through an obstacle course: The complaints mechanism for victims of crime in England and Wales
by Manikis, Marie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Criminology & Criminal Justice 12(2) 149-173 The Code of Practice for Victims of Crime, introduced by the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004, is portrayed as an important advance on the previous two Charters, particularly with regards to the complaints process...
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Name, Shame, and then build consensus? Bringing conflict resolution skills to human rights
by Sonnenberg, Stephan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Journal of Law & Policy Vol. 39:257-308 Over the past two decades, clinics in both international human rights and dispute resolution have proliferated in the U.S. legal academy. While the combined number of these clinics in top American law schools was in the single digits...
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Mediation in cases of elder abuse and mistreatment: The case of university windsor mediation services
by Smyth, Gemma
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues: Vol.30 121-147 Mediation in cases of elder abuse and mistreatment is increasingly employed in North America to resolve conflicts that disproportionately affect older adults. The attendant dangers of mediation in these cases requires...
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