Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice: Deferring human rights issues
Iosif Kovras, "Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice: Deferring human rights issues "
English | ISBN: 0415638836 | 2014 | 228 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0415638836 | 2014 | 228 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation.
Despite democratisation, the exhumation of mass graves containing the victims from the violence in Cyprus (1963-1974) and the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) was delayed until the early 2000s, when both countries suddenly decided to revisit the past. Although this contradicts the actions of other countries such as South Africa, Bosnia, and Guatemala where truth recovery for disappeared/missing persons was a central element of the transition to peace and democracy, Cyprus and Spain are not alone: this is an increasing trend among countries trying to come to terms with past violence.
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