Wednesday, August 31, 2005

East Timor: When peace and justice collide / International Herald Tribune, 31 Aug 2004

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/30/news/edthakur.php
Ramesh Thakur
"The purely juridical approach to transitional justice traps communities in past hatreds. Traditional justice systems, however, which are restorative rather than retributive, have a better record than international criminal justice of ending savage cycles of retributive violence in deeply conflicted societies"