Facing the past : Truth, accountability and victims' compensation in South Africa and the Czech Republic

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Facing the past : Truth, accountability and victims' compensation in South Africa and the Czech Republic
Original language description
One of the priorities for countries emerging from oppressive authoritarian or totalitarian rule is dealing with the crimes committed under the former regime. In recent decades, efforts for doing so have come to be known as transitional justice. The choices countries make concerning the methods and mechanisms for addressing the past depend to a large extent on the specificities of the local context. It is, however, possible to identify a number of general goals of transitional justice processes - such astruth, justice, reconciliation, institutional reform or victim compensation. This chapter looks at how the Czech Republic and South Africa have dealt with the legacy of communism and apartheid respectively. It assesses the countries' efforts to come toterms with their past against three of the broad aims of transitional justice - truth-telling and truth-finding, accountability and punishment, and victims' compensation. By using such a framework, the specific historical, socio-political
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Czech description
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Global challenges and local reactions : Czech Republic and South Africa
ISBN
978-3-643-90591-8
Number of pages of the result
24
Pages from-to
161-184
Number of pages of the book
243
Publisher name
LIT
Place of publication
Berlin
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