Where is the justice? Theorising the legacy of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

Grant number: DE160100501 | Funding period: 2016 - 2019

Completed

Abstract

This project seeks to advance theories that explain the social and political effects of international criminal tribunals. It is widely claimed that international tribunals, in addition to providing legal justice, work to enhance the rule of law, respect for human rights and national reconciliation in post-conflict contexts. Taking the Khmer Rouge Tribunal as its case, this project aims to critically analyse such claims by interrogating the non-judicial legacies of documentation, memorialisation and the provision of collective reparations. Knowing more about these key non-judicial legacies and how tribunals enhance the rule of law, human rights and national reconciliation, may help inform the..

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The Projectification of Reparation

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There has been increasing use of project-based organization in various areas of human rights practice, including within truth and ..

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Reparations at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

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Left justified: The early campaign for an international law response to Khmer Rouge crimes

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In April 1979, a mission of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers made a solidarity visit to Cambodia in the immedia..

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Transitional Justice

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2020-01-01

This updated edition will assist readers in their research by providing factual information, historical perspectives, theoretical ..

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Showing now: The Bophana Audiovisual Resource Centre and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

Rachel Hughes

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Achievements and Legacies of the Khmer Rouge Trials: Reflections from Inside the Tribunal

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This article is an edited transcript of a panel discussion that was held in Melbourne in December 2017. The panel comprised four s..

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[Book review]: Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer. By Alexander L. Hinton. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016

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2018-01-01

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Cambodians Await Crucial Tribunal Finding into 1970s Brutal Khmer Rouge

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A day of judgement is fast approaching for two now-elderly central figures in the Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s. But part of the..

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Cambodia's Prison (Visitor) Books: a Medium of Political lnstruction

Rachel Hughes

2018-01-01

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Justice processes and discourses of post-conflict reconciliation in Southeast Asia: the experiences of Cambodia and Timor-Leste

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The year 2015 saw the 40th anniversary of the 1975 Indonesian invasion of Timor-Leste. The anniversary was marked with calls for a..

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Victims’ rights, victim collectives and utopic disruption at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

R Hughes

2016-01-01

This article examines victim participation at Cambodia’s hybrid tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (EC..

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