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    Post-transitional Justice: Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador
    Post-transitional Justice: Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador
    Post-transitional Justice: Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador
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    Post-transitional Justice: Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador

    By Cath Collins

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    Latin America is still dealing with the legacy of terror and torture from its authoritarian past. In the years after the restoration of democratic governments in countries where violations of human rights were most rampant, the efforts to hold former government officials accountable were mainly conducted at the level of the state, through publicly appointed truth commissions and other such devices. This stage of “transitional justice” has been carefully and exhaustively studied. But as this first wave of efforts died down, with many still left unsatisfied that justice had been rendered, a new approach began to take over. In Post-transitional Justice, Cath Collins examines the distinctive nature of this approach, which combines evolving legal strategies by private actors with changes in domestic judicial systems. Collins presents both a theoretical framework and a finely detailed investigation of how this has played out in two countries, Chile and El Salvador. Drawing on more than three hundred interviews, Collins analyzes the reasons why the process achieved relative success in Chile but did not in El Salvador.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPSUPress
    Release dateJul 30, 2010
    ISBN9780271050959
    Post-transitional Justice: Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador

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