ALEXANDER LABAN HINTON is the director of the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights and a professor of anthropology and global affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of the award-winning Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide.
"This superb collection of essays illustrates well the messiness
that underlies the evolving concept of transitional justice. By
casting an anthropological eye on the real world of local
justice--on the ground and buffeted by history, politics,
globalized discourse, rituals, and power relationships--this volume
makes an important contribution to our understanding of
transitional justice and in particular, the assumptions that have
framed its initiation and development. Most importantly, these
essays raise the critical question of whether we have limited our
perspectives prematurely and accepted too restrictive a definition
of the field."-- (12/16/2009)
"Transitional justice offers great promise of reconciling past
wrongs and conflicts, but we know relatively little about its local
effects. This excellent anthropological collection gives a rich and
complex story of how it works in practice."-- (12/17/2009)
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