Gender and Transitional Justice The Women of East Timor [Hardcover]

Gender and Transitional Justiceprovides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often presented as a UN success story, the author demonstrates that, in spite of women and childrens rights programmes of the UN and other donors, justice for women has deteriorated in post-conflict Timor, and violence has remained a constant in their lives.

This book provides a gendered analysis of transitional justice as a discipline. It is also one of the first studies to offer a comprehensive case study of how women engaged in the whole range of transitional mechanisms in a post-conflict state, i.e. domestic trials, internationalised trials and truth commissions. The book reveals the political dynamics in a post-conflict setting around gender and questions of justice, and reframes of the meanings of success and failure of international interventions in the light of them.

1. Introduction: A luta continua!(The Fight Continues!)  2. Sexing the Subject of Transitional Justice  3. Cecelia Soares Recalls: East Timor as a Case Study  4. Beloved Madam: The Indonesian ad hocHuman Rights Court  5. Wearing his Jacket: The Serious Crimes Process  6. Women Cut in Half: The Commission for Reception, Truth Seeking and Reconciliation and the Limits of Restorative Justice  7. Conclusion: 'Operation Love'.  Appendices.  Bibliography

Susan Harris Rimmeris Research Fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Justice, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University