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College Catalog 2013-2014 
    
College Catalog 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

INTL 352 - Transitional Justice


This course explores the rapidly evolving field of transitional justice, examining how and why regimes respond to wide-scale past human rights abuses. Drawing on examples worldwide, it asks why states choose particular strategies and examines a variety of goals (truth, justice, reconciliation, democracy-building), approaches (trials, truth commissions, file access, memorialization, reparation, rewriting histories), actors (state, civil society, religious institutions), experiences, results, and controversies. (4 Credits)