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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Cynthia M. Horne, "Building Trust and Democracy: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Countries" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Description: It has become both a normative expectation as well as a practical policy recommendation that context-specific transitional justice measures are needed to repair the state and society following a conflict or an authoritarian transition. The assumption that transitional justice programs benefit both a state and its society is so strongly held that international actors will step in to design and even implement measures when a government is unable or unwilling to do so. In her acclaimed book Building Trust and Democracy: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Countries, published with Oxford University Press in 2017, Prof. Cynthia Horne examines these claims with r...