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Cursus: GKMV16015
GKMV16015
Facing the Past. Amending Historical Injustices Through Instruments of Transitional Justice
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeGKMV16015
Studiepunten (EC)5
Cursusdoelen
- Learning to gain and assess relevant empirical and theoretical knowledge concerning the course's topic at an advanced level  
- Learning to operationalise knowledge and analytical skills, a.o. by preparing propositions for discussion and conducting research on the basis of a given question at an advanced level
- Learning to present research results, both orally and in writing, in a clear and well-structured way, at an advanced level  
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Especially since the end of World War II societies, both at a national and international level, started to develop instruments and mechanisms to repair historical injustices. Examples range from the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and the International Criminal Court to the South African Truth and Reconciliation  Commission, financial compensation programmes for war victims and descendants of colonial abuse and slavery and historical research as a way of truth finding.
 
But the question remains how effective all of these instruments and mechanisms actually are. Do they indeed have the power to heal broken societies? Can they really help to restore peace and stability in countries and regions that try to recover from war, violence, crimes against humanity and genocide?
 
Starting point of this course is that successfully amending historical injustices is only possible when all groups of the so-called atrocity triangle are involved in this process. By using a multidisciplinary approach that combines history with social sciences and international law we will try to determine whether available instruments of retributive and restorative justice have indeed been able to pay equal attention to both victims, perpetrators and bystanders.  
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