African Perspectives on Tradition and Justice

ISBN 10: 1780680597 / ISBN 13: 9781780680590

Editore: Intersentia, 2012

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Riassunto:

This volume provides a better understanding of the relationship between tradition and justice in Africa. It presents contributions by African scholars related to current international discourses on access to justice and human rights, and on the localization of transitional justice. The contributions suggest that access to justice and appropriate transitional justice strategies need to consider diversity and legal pluralism. In this sense, they all stress that dialogical approaches are the way forward. Whether it is in the context of legal reforms, transitional processes in post-war societies, or the promotion of human rights in general, all contributors accentuate that it is by means of cooperation, conversation, and cross-fertilization between different legal realities that positive achievements can be realized. The contributions illustrate the perspectives on this dialectal process from those operating on the ground from Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, and Rwanda.

Informazioni sull?autore: Giselle Corradi is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Human Rights Centre at the Law Faculty of Ghent University. She studied law in Buenos Aires before moving to Ghent, where she completed her Masters in Comparative Studies of Culture (2005) and her PhD in Law (2012). Her PhD research dealt with the role of international development actors regarding human rights and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa, with case studies in Sierra Leone and Mozambique.Before joining the Human Rights Centre as a researcher in 2008, she worked as a consultant for fair trade projects in Guatemala and Peru for the Durabilis Foundation (2006-2007). In her current position as a researcher she combines her expertise in the domains of law, anthropology and development, with particular attention for gender.She is also a board member of the Flemish Interuniversity Research Network on Law and Development Law&Dev and of the Commission of Legal Pluralism. She is also a member of the human rights component of the VLIR-UOS Institutional Cooperation Programme with Mozambique DESAFIO and she is editorial assistant for the "journal Human Rights and International Legal Discourse" (HRILD).Martien Schotsmans holds a Masters in Law, a Masters in Criminology and a Post-Graduate in International Politics. She has worked as a private practice lawyer in Belgium for about ten years, mainly in criminal law. In the following years, she was in Rwanda with Avocats Sans Frontières to provide legal assistance to accused and victims of genocide in domestic trials, in Chad with FIDH to conduct investigations in the Hissène Habré case and in Sierra Leone with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. After that she worked with Avocats Sans Frontières to organize legal assistance for defendants and victims of international crimes in domestic trials in the DRC and at the ICC. In between, Martien did consultancies on judicial reform, on GBV and transitional justice in Rwanda, DRC, Benin, Morocco, etc. More recently, she conducted research in the field of transitional justice in Sub-Saharan Africa and more in particular on the role of tradition-based justice. She worked until 2013 at the Leuvens Institute of Criminology at KU Leuven (Belgium) where she provides research support and teaching assistance. She is also preparing a PhD (since 2010) on the topic of "Globalisation and Localisation in Transitional Justice and the challenges for tradition-based justice". Since 2013 she is director of RCN Justice & Démocratie.

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Titolo: African Perspectives on Tradition and Justice
Casa editrice: Intersentia
Data di pubblicazione: 2012
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good