[TimorLesteStudies] New book out soon: Elizabeth Stanley. Torture, Truth and Justice: The Case of Timor Leste.

[Bu Wilson]

Stanley, E. (forthcoming- Feb 2009). Torture, Truth and Justice: The Case of
Timor Leste. Routledge. 

Product Description
This book highlights how, and why, torture is such a compelling tool for
states and other powerful actors. While torture has a short-term use value
for perpetrators, it also creates a devastating legacy for victims, their
families and communities. In exposing such repercussions, this book
addresses the questions 'What might torture victims need to move forward
from their violation?' and 'How can official responses provide truth or
justice for torture victims?'Building on observations, documentary analysis
and over seventy interviews with both torture victims and transitional
justice workers this book explores how torture was used, suffered and
resisted in Timor-Leste. The author investigates the extent to which
transitional justice institutions have provided justice for torture victims;
illustrating how truth commissions and international courts operate together
and reflecting on their successes and weaknesses with reference to wider
social, political and economic conditions. Stanley also details victims'
experiences of torture and highlights how they experience life in the newly
built state of Timor-Leste Tracking the past, present and future of human
rights, truth and justice for victims in Timor-Leste, "Torture, Truth and
Justice" will be of interest to students, professionals and scholars of
Asian studies, International Studies, Human Rights and Social Policy.(from
http://www.amazon.com/Torture-Truth-Justice-Timor-Politics/dp/0415478073/ref
=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225147085&sr=8-1)

Author details: Elizabeth.Stanley at vuw.ac.nz

Table of contents

Contents

Acknowledgements
vi

List of Abbreviations and Other
Terms					ix

Chapter One:
Introduction							1
THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT					7
BOOK
OVERVIEW								12
THE RESEARCH CONTEXT						15
Taking a Critical Approach to Human Rights
Research			16
Communicating the Pain of
Torture						21
Breaking Silence through
Stories						25
THE RESEARCH PROCESS						31
THE
CHAPTERS								33

Chapter Two: Contextualizing
Torture					37
THE HISTORICAL USE OF STATE TORTURE				40
MANAGING AND LEGITIMIZING TORTURE				46
TORTURE VICTIMS AND STATUS					51
Class
51
*Race*
53
Gender
56
Further Status
Disparities							58
TORTURE*S
AFTERMATH							59
CONCLUSION								63

Chapter Three: Introducing
Justice					66
GLOBALIZATION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE STATE		69
RECOGNITION								73
REDISTRIBUTION								78
Structural
Injustice								80
Obscuring the Structural
Landscape						85
PARTICIPATION								90
Misframing
92
Capabilities
94
Institutional
Frameworks							97
CONCLUSION: WORKING TOWARDS STATUS PARITY		99

Chapter Four: Transitional
Justice						102
THE RISE OF TRANSITIONAL
JUSTICE					104
Trials and Truth
Commissions						107
PROVIDING RECOGNITION						109
INHIBITING RECOGNITION						112
Problems of the Institutional
Frame						113
Problems of
Participation							120
PROMOTING
REDISTRIBUTION						127
IMPEDING
REDISTRIBUTION						131
CONCLUSION								136

Chapter Five: Torture in
Timor-Leste					139
GENERAL
OVERVIEW							140
TORTURERS AND THEIR MOTIVES					141
The Role of UDT and Fretilin in
Torture					142
Indonesian
Torture								143
The
Militias
152
The Intelligence Networks Underpinning
Torture				154
EXPERIENCING TORTURE						156
Torture as One Violation among
Many					159
DEALING WITH TORTURE						162
CONCLUSION								168

Chapter Six: Entrenching Criminal
Injustice				170
SECURING RECOGNITION FOR TORTURE VICTIMS			173
LIMITING RECOGNITION: THE SERIOUS CRIMES PROCESS	176
Restrictive Rules and
Decisions						177
Institutional
Incapacity							179
Providing Political
Cover							182
EMBEDDING IMPUNITY: THE AD HOC COURTS IN JAKARTA	184
CREATING
*OTHERING*							187
PRACTICES OF EXCLUSION						193
Institutional
Distancing							194
Limiting and Ignoring Local
Capacities					196
REFLECTING AND DEEPENING STRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES	199
Consolidating Global Inequalities of
Power					202
CONCLUSION: THE CONTINUATION OF INJUSTICE			205

Chapter Seven: Justice in
Truthtelling?					208
CONNECTING PARTICIPATION TO RECOGNITION			209
INTRODUCING COMMUNITY RECONCILIATION PROCESSES	215
PROBLEMS OF
PARTICIPATION						219
Victim*s
Capabilities								220
Strategic Decision-Making by
Victims					223
The Distancing from and the Management of
CRP				225
Placing Institutional Mandates Ahead of Individual
Needs			229
CAVR*S CONNECTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE			231
THE LIMITS ON
RECOGNITION						233
SETTING THE GROUND FOR REDISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE		238
THE TURN TO FRIENDSHIP						244
CONCLUSION								249

Chapter Eight: The Continuation of Violence and
Insecurity		252
CRAFTING THE STATE OF TIMOR-LESTE				254
PARTICIPATORY
INJUSTICES						257
A LIMITED RECOGNITION OF HISTORICAL CONFLICT		260
INSTITUTIONAL INCAPACITY AND FURTHER VIOLATIONS	264
EMBEDDING GLOBAL ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES			267
STRATEGIC STATE-BUILDING: IN WHOSE INTERESTS?		272
THE PERSONAL REALITIES OF SURVIVING TORTURE		275
CONCLUSION								282

Chapter Nine: Looking to the
Future					285
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE *FROM BELOW*				286
Reflecting
Torture								290
The Convergence of
Injustices						292
RETHINKING TRANSITIONAL
JUSTICE					294
TOWARDS SOCIAL CHANGE						298

Appendix: Recognizing Torture in the Serious Crimes
Process		301

Bibliography
320



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