Explaining the Impact of Transitional Justice

Dr. Leigh A. Payne (University of Oxford)

Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 11h30 to 13h
Room 508-31
3744 Jean-Brillant
Université de Montréal

Affiliated talk at University of Montreal based on the co-edited volume Transitional Justice in Balance. A new cross-national study of the impact of human rights trials, truth commissions, and amnesties on the strengthening of democracy and human right protections.

Leigh A. Payne is a Professor of Sociology at the Latin American Centre in the University of Oxford and a faculty affiliate at the University of Minnesota Law School. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 1991. She is the author of Brazilian Industrialists and Democratic Change (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right Wing and Democracy in Latin America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), and Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (Duke University Press, 2008). Her most recent co-authored book is Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy (United States Institute of Peace 2010) She has edited other volumes and written various obook chapters and articles on human rights and transitions from authoritarian rule in Latin America and South Africa.

Center for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence