Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement
DATE
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
LOCATION
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway Room 1517
DETAILS
Dr. Jamie Rowen is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Drawing on twelve years of fieldwork, over 200 interviews, archival and survey research, the talk focuses on how transitional justice developed as an idea around which a loosely structured movement emerged and professionalized, making truth commissions a standard response to mass violence.
The book examines calls for a truth commission to redress the brutal war during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, the decades-long armed conflict in Colombia, and US detention policies in the War on Terror.
