Post-Conflict Justice And Sustainable Peace

Post-Conflict Justice And Sustainable Peace / Gates, Scott

No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This paper attempts to fill that void by building on a newly constructed dataset (Binningsbo, Elster, and Gates 2005), which reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict justice...

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Main Authors:Gates, Scott, 1957-
Other Authors:Binningsbø, Helga Malmin
Lie, Tove Grete
Format: Online-Resource
Language:English
Published:Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2007
Subjects:
Atrocities
Civil War
Civil Wars
Compromise
Conflict
Conflict and Development
Corruption and Anticorruption Law
Deterrence
Fighting
Human Rights
International Community
International Law
International Treaties
Massacres
Peace and Peacekeeping
Post Conflict Reconstruction
Post Conflict Reintegration
Social Conflict and Violence
Social Development
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Summary:No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This paper attempts to fill that void by building on a newly constructed dataset (Binningsbo, Elster, and Gates 2005), which reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict justice efforts (trials, purges, reparation to victims, and truth commissions) as well as processes associated with abstaining from post-conflict justice (amnesty and exile). It investigates the long-term effects of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace after conflict. It uses a Cox proportional hazard model to analyze the influence of the various types of post-conflict justice on the length of the peace period before the recurrence of violent conflict. Post-conflict trials as well as other types of justice do lead to a more durable peace in democratic as well as non-democratic societies, but the results are weak and are therefore difficult to generalize. Forms of non-retributive justice (that is, reparations to victims and truth commissions), however, are strongly associated with the duration of peace in democratic societies, but are not significant for non-democratic societies. Amnesty tends to be destabilizing and generally associated with shorter peace duration, but exile tends to lead to a more durable peace
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (25 Seiten)

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