Conclusions: the uneven road towards accountability in Latin America Elin Skaar, Cath Collins, Jemi

Introduction: the accountability challenge Elin Skaar, Jemima García-Godos, Cath Collins Transition

"Accountability" Elin Skaar Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice Nadya Nedelsky and Lavinia Stan ac

Indonesia’s most promising attempt at controlling corruption and an inspiration for its peers internationally is about to lose a lot of what enabled ...

This special issue examines the political role of courts in new democracies in Latin America and Africa, focussing on their ability to hold political ...

Many Latin American countries are moving towards increased accountability for past human rights violations. There is a growing international consensus ...

How do transitional justice mechanisms contribute to peace and democracy after authoritarian rule or violent conflict has ended? This chapter examines ...

This chapter traces 30 years of transitional justice development following civil-military rule (1973–85) in Uruguay. The 1985 amnesty law helped ...

Angola has not addressed violations committed during almost three decades of war following independence, in which hundreds of thousands of people died. ...

Bridging the literatures on peacebuilding and transitional justice, this chapter outlines an analytical framework for assessing the impact of transitional ...

A structured comparative analysis of one post-authoritarian case (Uruguay), two post-conflict cases (Rwanda and Angola), and one mixed case (Peru) demonstrates ...

The field of transitional justice has recently seen a surge of interest in the issues of effectiveness and impact. This book examines the effects of transitional ...

Uruguay: halfway towards accountability Francesca Lessa and Elin Skaar Transitional Justice in Lati

This report presents some of the findings from field work carried out in October-November 2008 in Kalandula, Malanje province, on the fresh experiences ...

Donor support to social accountability in fragile and conflict-affected states is a relatively new phenomenon. It has emerged with the lessons that ...

Can improved revenue collection and tax policies provide for more democratically accountable government? The chapter discusses the relationship between ...

Este relatório apresenta alguns resultados do trabalho de campo realizado em Outubro-Novembro de 2008 em Kalandula, província de Malange, sobre experiências recentes com os novos Conselhos de Auscultação e Concertação Social. Este relatório também discute os resultados à luz das declarações políticas e das experiências internacionais com instituições similares.

Legal empowerment refers to the use of laws and rights to increase relatively powerless populations’ control over their lives. A growing field, ...

This article is a contribution to the Boston Review debate on counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. It argues that when the problem is cast in combat terms—Afghanistan ...

Through their innovative ideas, an empowered youth have the potential to hold governments accountable and work towards the reduction of corruption. Incubator-type ...