"Death Does Not Rot": Transitional Justice and Local “Truths” in the Aftermath of the War in Northern Uganda "Death does not rot": Transitional Justice und lokale “Wahrheiten” im vom Krieg gezeichneten Norduganda

"Death Does Not Rot": Transitional Justice and Local “Truths” in the Aftermath of the War in Northern Uganda "Death does not rot": Transitional Justice und lokale “Wahrheiten” im vom Krieg gezeichneten Norduganda

The article looks at the way Acholi in northern Uganda address war-related matters of “peace” and “justice” beyond the mainstream human rights discourse reflecting some of the basic concepts that are decisive for the way people deal with transitional and local justice. The relationality and the segm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barbara Meier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:Africa Spectrum
Subjects:
social anthropology
Acholi, civil wars, transitional justice, coming to terms with the past, cultural values and standards, traditional law
200, 204, 300, 301, 320, 327
Uganda
present
Ethnologie
Acholi, Bürgerkrieg, Transitional Justice, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, kulturelle Werte und Normen, Traditionelles Recht
Gegenwart
Online Access:http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/647

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