Research Catalog

Title

Children and transitional justice : truth-telling, accountability and reconciliation / edited by Sharanjeet Parmar, Mindy Jane Roseman, Saudamini Siegrist, Theo Sowa.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Parmar, Sharanjeet
• Roseman, Mindy Jane
• Siegrist, Saudamini.
• Sowa, Theo
• Harvard Law School. Human Rights Program
• UNICEF. Innocenti Research Centre

Description

xxvi, 417 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The book explores questions raised when children's issues - and children themselves - are prioritized in transitional justice processes. It analyzes practical experiences to determine how the range of international courts, truth commissions and traditional processes can be applied, both to improve accountability for crimes perpetrated against children and to protect the rights of children involved." "Children are increasingly a focus of international and national courts and truth commissions. Their participation, including through testimony that bears witness to their experiences, demonstrates their critical role in truth, justice, and reconciliation processes. If children are to engage, however, their rights must be respected." "This book includes analysis of the recent involvement of children in transitional justice processes in Liberia, Peru, Sierra Leone, and South Africa. It also explores key areas of current debates among legal scholars and child rights advocates, such as international criminal responsibility, traditional and restorative justice, reparations, psychosocial support for child witnesses, and links between education and reconciliation." "The book emphasizes how children must be engaged during post-conflict transition. If children are excluded, they may become vulnerable to a continuing cycle of violence, affecting future generations. In contrast, through active involvement in transitions, children and adolescents can be the catalysts for justice, reconciliation, and peace-building within their own families and communities."--Jacket.

Subject

• Children's rights
• Children > Legal status, laws, etc
• Transitional justice
• Child witnesses
• Transitional justice > Cross-cultural studies
• Children's rights > Cross-cultural studies
• Children > Legal status, laws, etc. > Cross-cultural studies
• Child witnesses > Cross-cultural studies

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Note

• "Jointly developed by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) in Florence, Italy and the Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Child rights and transitional justice / Saudamini Siegrist -- Basic assumptions of transitional justice and children / Alison Smith -- International criminal justice and child protection / Cécile Aptel -- Children and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Piers Pigou -- Child participation in the Sierra Leonean Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Philip Cook and Cheryl Heykoop -- Children and the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Theo Sowa -- Accountability and reconciliation in Northern Uganda. Accountability for sexual and gender-based crimes by the Lord's Resistance Army / Kristopher Carlson and Dyan Mazurana -- The potential and limits of mato oput as a tool for reconciliation and justice / Prudence Acirokop -- Disappeared children, genetic tracing and justice / Michele Harvey-Blankenship and Rachel Shigekane -- Truth commission and national curricula: the case of Recordándonos in Peru / Julia Paulson -- Realizing economic justice for children: the role of transitional justice in post-conflict societies / Sharanjeet Parmar.

ISBN

• 9780979639548 (pbk.)
• 0979639549 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 535656277
• SCSB-11518302

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library