@article{Gordy_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Human Rights and Transitional Justice}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/human-rights-and-transitional-justice}, abstractNote={This course will explore the development of international law in relation to violations of human rights from the signing of the Hague and Geneva conventions to the statute of the ICC. The course material will attempt to explain what sorts of approaches have been tried, the advantages and drawbacks of each, and the recurring dilemma faced by transitional regimes of whether to "trade justice for truth." The principal examples will be: 1) The International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo 2) The investigative commissions appointed by South Africa, Argentina and Chile 3) The presently functioning International Criminal Tribunals 4) The ongoing debate over the founding of the International Criminal Court}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Gordy, Eric}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }