Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Transitional Justice Remit

Human rights, transitional justice, public health and social reconstruction.

Mass violence, armed conflict, genocide, and complex humanitarian emergencies continue to create major social and public health disasters at the dawn of the 21st Century. Transitional justice, a set of policies designed to address the effects of war on traumatized communities and bring justice, lies at the nexus of public health, conflict, and social reconstruction. Despite the paucity of empir...

The Economic and Social Dimensions of Transitional Justice

Transitional justice, as defined by the United Nations, is the full range of processes and mechanisms associated with a society’s attempt to come to terms with a legacy of large-scale past abuses of human rights (UN, 2010: 2). Although the UN acknowledges the equal importance of all human rights for human well-being and explicitly calls for addressing all these rights in processes of transition...

Individual rights and social justice.

Reassembling International Justice: The Making of ‘the Social’ in International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice

This article examines the most recent shift in ongoing debates concerning the relationship between international criminal law and transitional justice, using the examples of international criminal prosecutions before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and transitional justice mechanisms in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It reframes the problematic relationship between...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...