Journal article
Finding Space for Criminal Prosecutions Post-Conflict
Journal of applied philosophy, Vol.33(1), pp.53-68
02/01/2016
DOI: 10.1111/japp.12105
Abstract
Post-conflict criminal prosecutions for the worst of crimes can play a meaningful role in achieving transitional justice. This once-common view has recently been the subject of widespread criticism that is rooted in the belief that criminal prosecutions undermine reconciliation. This has lead some scholars to argue that we must either abandon criminal prosecutions post-conflict or that we ought to use them for more general transitional justice aims, like restorative justice. This article argues against abandoning criminal prosecutions post conflict and against subsuming criminal justice aims under restorative or reconciliatory aims. When post-conflict criminal prosecutions are properly structured and practiced they can bolster respect for the international, regional and domestic rule of law and in that way limit conflict in a number of important ways.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Finding Space for Criminal Prosecutions Post-Conflict
- Creators
- Jovana Davidovic - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of applied philosophy, Vol.33(1), pp.53-68
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1111/japp.12105
- ISSN
- 0264-3758
- eISSN
- 1468-5930
- Number of pages
- 16
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Law Faculty; Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984397949002771
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