
African perspectives on tradition and justice
Tom Bennet,
Eva Brems
(UGent)
,
Giselle Corradi
(UGent)
, Lia Nijzink and
Martien Schotsmans
(UGent)
(2012)
- Editor
- Tom Bennet, Eva Brems (UGent) , Giselle Corradi (UGent) , Lia Nijzink and Martien Schotsmans (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- This volume aims to produce a better understanding of the relationship between tradition and justice in Africa. It presents contributions of six African scholars related to current international discourses on access to justice and human rights and on the localisation of transitional justice. The contributions suggest that access to justice and appropriate, context-specific 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 in this book illustrate the perspectives on this dialectal process from those operating on the ground, and more specifically form Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Malawi, South-Africa, Uganda and Rwanda,. Obviously, the contributions in this volume do not provide the final outcome of the debate. Rather, they are part of it.
- Keywords
- Traditional Justice, Development, Transitional Justice, Africa
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-2942177
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- Bennet, Tom, et al., editors. African Perspectives on Tradition and Justice. Intersentia, 2012.
- APA
- Bennet, T., Brems, E., Corradi, G., Nijzink, L., & Schotsmans, M. (Eds.). (2012). African perspectives on tradition and justice. Antwerpen, Belgium ; Cambridge, UK: Intersentia.
- Chicago author-date
- Bennet, Tom, Eva Brems, Giselle Corradi, Lia Nijzink, and Martien Schotsmans, eds. 2012. “African Perspectives on Tradition and Justice.” Antwerpen, Belgium ; Cambridge, UK: Intersentia.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Bennet, Tom, Eva Brems, Giselle Corradi, Lia Nijzink, and Martien Schotsmans, eds. 2012. “African Perspectives on Tradition and Justice.” Antwerpen, Belgium ; Cambridge, UK: Intersentia.
- Vancouver
- 1.Bennet T, Brems E, Corradi G, Nijzink L, Schotsmans M, editors. African perspectives on tradition and justice. Antwerpen, Belgium ; Cambridge, UK: Intersentia; 2012.
- IEEE
- [1]T. Bennet, E. Brems, G. Corradi, L. Nijzink, and M. Schotsmans, Eds., “African perspectives on tradition and justice.” Intersentia, Antwerpen, Belgium ; Cambridge, UK, 2012.
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