Overview
- Questions transitional justice literature’s expectation on positive changes resulting from truth-seeking, reparations, and criminal accountability
- Argues that international human rights norms are not enough to fundamentally change states’ policies or sustain states’ course of compliance
- Elaborates on how transitional justice policies are affected by two factors: the interest of states and the activism of international and domestic human rights actors
- Demonstrates the vulnerability of states’ commitment to normative obligations and the continued importance domestic political utility calculations have in determining state behaviour
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies on Human Rights in Asia (PMSHRA)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Theories of Human Rights
- Theories Transitional Justice
- Human Rights and Transitional Justice
- Transitional Justice in Peru
- Uruguay’s Path Towards Justice
- South Korea’s Past Human Rights Abuses
- Human Rights in Peru
- Human Rights in Uruguay
- Human Rights in South Korea
- post-transitional justice
- human rights criminals
- reparations policies
- truth-commissions
- international norm diffusion theory
- crimes against humanity
- norm diffusion models
- Human Rights Compliance
- domestic human rights actors
- Human Rights Activism
About this book
This book presents the first cross-regional analysis of post-transitional justice periods and the conditions that influence states’ behaviors. Specifically, the book examines why states that adopt and ostensibly implement transitional justice norms as policies—criminal prosecutions, reparations policies, and truth commissions—fail to follow through with their recommendations. Applying these perspectives to a comparative study of states from Latin America and East Asia—namely, Peru, Uruguay, and South Korea—which accepted and implemented transitional justice norms but took different trajectories of behavior after the implementation of policies, this book contributes to understanding the relationship of norm influence on states and why states change in compliance after norm adoption. The book explores the conditions that contribute or limit the continued respect for transitional justice norms, emphasizing the political interests and transnational advocacy networks’ roles in affectingstates’ policies of addressing past abuses.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ñusta Carranza Ko is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore. She is the co-author of Theories of International Relations and the Game of Thrones (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019). Her research focuses on transitional justice in Latin America and Asia, and indigenous peoples’ rights in Peru.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Truth, Justice, and Reparations in Peru, Uruguay, and South Korea
Book Subtitle: The Clash of Advocacy and Politics
Authors: Ñusta Carranza Ko
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies on Human Rights in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4939-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4938-4Published: 30 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4941-4Published: 30 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4939-1Published: 29 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2752-4310
Series E-ISSN: 2752-4329
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 306
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Science, Human Rights, International Criminal Law , Political History, Asian Politics