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TBD, Martha Fineman, Estelle Zinsstag - Feminist Perspectives on Transitional Justice, Inbunden

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Feminist Perspectives on Transitional Justice

From International and Criminal to Alternative Forms of Justice

Av TBD, Martha Fineman, Estelle Zinsstag

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Truth-seeking mechanisms, international criminal law developments, and other forms of transitional justice have become ubiquitous in societies emerging from long years of conflict, instability and oppression and moving into a post-conflict, more peaceful era. In practice, both top-down and bottom-up approaches to transitional justice are being formally and informally developed in places such as South Africa, Liberia, Peru, Chile, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and Northern Ireland. Many studies, conferences and debates have taken place addressing these developments and providing elaboration of theories relating to transition justice generally. However, rarely have these processes been examined and critiqued through a feminist lens. The position of women, particularly their specific victimisation, typically has not been taken into account in any systematic manner. Seldom do commentators specifically consider whether the recently developed mechanisms for promoting peace and reconciliation will actually help the position of women in a society moving out of repression or conflict.This is unfortunate, since women's issues are often overlooked and post-conflict societies, because they must rebuild, are ideally poised to introduce standards that would enable and ensure the active participation of the entire population, including women, in rebuilding a more stable, fair and democratic polity. This book offers some insights into women's perspectives and feminist views on the topic of transitional justice or 'justice in transition'. Bringing feminism into the conversation allows us to expand the possibilities for a transformative justice approach after a period of conflict or insecurity, not by replacing it with feminist theory, but by broadening the scope and vision of the potential responses.
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Martha Albertson Fineman is a Robert W. Woodruff Professor at Emory University School of Law. An internationally recognized scholar, Fineman is a leading authority on family law and feminist jurisprudence. Following graduation from University of Chicago Law School in 1975, she clerked for the Hon. Luther M. Swygert of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Fineman began her teaching career at the University of Wisconsin in 1976. In 1990, she moved to Columbia University where she was the Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law. Before moving to Emory, she was on the Cornell Law School faculty where she held the Dorothea Clarke Professorship, the fi rst endowed chair in the nation in feminist jurisprudence. Fineman is founder and Director of the Feminism and Legal Th eory (FLT) Project, which was inaugurated in 1984. Th e two most recent collections from the FLT Project edited by Fineman are What Is Right For Children? Th e Competing Paradigms of Religion and Human Rights (with Karen Worthington) and Feminist and Queer Legal Th eory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations (with Jack E. Jackson and Adam P. Romero ), both published by Ashgate Press in 2009. Fineman also serves as co-director of Emory's Race and Diff erence Initiative and is the director of one of its sub-initiatives, the Vulnerability Studies Project. Estelle Zinsstag is a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology - KU Leuven (Belgium), and currently working on the FP7 project ALTERNATIVE. She publishes in the fi elds of sexual violence against women, transitional justice, and restorative justice. Her most recent publication is a book she co-edited with Inge Vanfraechem entitled Conferencing and Restorative Justice published by Oxford University Press (2012). She is also the managing editor of a new academic journal entitled Restorative Justice: an International Journal published by Hart Publishing. Previously she has been a senior research offi cer at the European Forum for Restorative Justice, where she was leading a project funded by the European Commission on 'Conferencing: A Way Forward for Restorative Justice in Europe'. In 2008 she completed a Ph.D. entitled 'Sexual Violence against Women in Armed Confl ict: Towards a Transitional Justice Perspective' at the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast (UK).

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