Confronting Past Human Rights Violations: Justice vs. Peace in Times of Transition (The Cass Series on Peacekeeping)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
List of abbreviations......Page 11
The dilemma: justice vs. peace......Page 13
Justice and peace: lessons......Page 14
Transitional justice and peacebuilding: moving beyond common debates......Page 15
Peace vs. justice: learning from experience......Page 17
Seeking peace, seeking justice: arguments for punishment and amnesty......Page 18
Practical and ethical bases for punishment......Page 19
Practical and moral grounds for amnesty......Page 22
Choosing between peace and justice while seeking long-term peace and justice......Page 24
The findings and lessons......Page 26
Notes......Page 27
Introduction......Page 33
The existing literature......Page 34
Factors affecting accountability......Page 35
The players in transitions......Page 37
The nature of past abuses and conflict......Page 38
The role of external and international factors......Page 39
Civil-military relations and the balance of forces......Page 40
Strategies and trade-offs of transition: lessons from military corporatism......Page 42
Militaries, society and intervention......Page 43
Militaries and transitions: hypotheses about strategies and trade-offs......Page 44
Notes......Page 46
Introduction......Page 52
El Salvador......Page 53
Argentina......Page 55
Uruguay......Page 56
Guatemala......Page 58
Chile......Page 59
Brazil......Page 61
Haiti......Page 62
Greece......Page 64
Portugal......Page 65
Spain......Page 66
Czechoslovakia (later the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic)......Page 67
East Germany......Page 69
Hungary......Page 70
Bulgaria......Page 72
Albania......Page 73
Poland......Page 74
Romania......Page 75
Russia......Page 77
Lithuania......Page 79
South Africa......Page 80
South Korea......Page 81
The Philippines......Page 82
Cambodia......Page 84
Sri Lanka......Page 85
Notes......Page 86
A brief history......Page 94
Negotiating peace: events and accords......Page 95
Developments after the peace accords......Page 103
The truth commission......Page 104
El Salvador today: ‘UN success story’......Page 106
Accountability for rights abuses......Page 107
Institutional reform......Page 108
Police reform......Page 109
Reform of the armed forces......Page 110
The military and the transition......Page 112
Balance of forces/civil-military issues......Page 113
Notes......Page 114
A brief history......Page 124
Democratization: the Alfonsín regime......Page 125
Revealing the truth: CONADEP......Page 126
Pursuit of accountability: the trials and their consequences......Page 127
Democratization: the Menem regime......Page 130
The mixed legacy of human rights in Argentina......Page 131
Human rights accountability: a promise largely deferred......Page 132
Institutional reform......Page 133
Factors enabling or inhibiting accountability......Page 134
Civil-military relations/balance of forces......Page 135
Absence of external actors: can peacekeepers and peacebuilders learn from Argentina?......Page 137
Notes......Page 138
A brief history......Page 145
Tentative civilianization......Page 146
The tentative beginnings of transition: the Reina regime......Page 147
Budget......Page 155
Balance of forces......Page 156
Length and intensity of conflict......Page 157
Notes......Page 158
A brief history......Page 166
The politics of transition......Page 167
The question of amnesty......Page 173
The work of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee......Page 174
Amnesty......Page 175
Other cases at the TRC......Page 176
Prosecutions and the legacy of the past......Page 177
The report......Page 178
Institutional reform......Page 179
International......Page 182
Lessons......Page 183
Notes......Page 184
Introduction......Page 191
History of the conflict......Page 192
The constitution, emergency and restrictions on fundamental rights......Page 193
The question of devolution......Page 197
The question of accountability......Page 203
Reactions of the security forces to commissions and prosecutions......Page 206
Institutional reform: context and progress......Page 207
International factors......Page 209
Lessons......Page 210
Notes......Page 211
Introduction......Page 223
Choices of transition: the ethical dilemma......Page 224
International factors......Page 225
Strategies of transition......Page 226
The wider array of cases......Page 227
The case studies......Page 228
Argentina......Page 229
South Africa......Page 230
Sri Lanka......Page 231
Lessons......Page 232
Notes......Page 233
Bibliography......Page 234
Index......Page 247