Transitional Justice for Israel/Palestine: Truth-Telling and Empathy in Ongoing Conflict

by Jeremie Bracka

Overview

This book applies the dynamic field of transitional justice to conflict resolution in Israel/Palestine. Around the globe, diverse societies have pursued truth-telling, restorative justice and reconciliation to end conflict — yet the language of transitional justice has been all but absent in Israel/Palestine.

This volume squarely addresses how transitional justice could contribute to conflict transformation and accountability, incorporating the questions of collective justice, memory, and human rights. It covers the most important historical and legal issues facing Israel/Palestine with a focus on civil societies in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Latin America. Ultimately, the book proposes an unofficial Israeli-Palestinian Truth and Empathy Commission (IPTEC) to address gross human rights abuses committed by both nations.

Transitional Justice for Israel/Palestine will be of interest to researchers, NGOs, and policy makers working in transitional justice and societies with ongoing conflict.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030894375
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/17/2021
Series:	Springer Series in Transitional Justice
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	387
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Jeremie M Bracka is an Australian-Israeli human rights lawyer and academic at Monash University (Melbourne). He was a Transitional Justice postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Hebrew University, Minerva Center for Human Rights (Jerusalem). He lectures in constitutional law, torts, human rights law, international criminal law and transitional justice. His PhD from Monash University (2020) focused on transitional justice in ongoing conflict and specifically Israel/Palestine. Jeremie has been widely published in Oxford University Press, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and the Melbourne Journal of International law. In 2018, Jeremie won the Monash University Law Publication Award for his chapter in Law and Memory: Towards Legal Governance of History (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He has worked as a legal advisor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2004), Israel’s Permanent Mission to the U.N (2009), Israel’s Supreme Court (2010) and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2011-13).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Historical Framework-The Struggle Over Narrative, Memory and Identity.- Chapter 2: Legal Dimensions of the Conflict and Legacies of Human Rights Abuse.- Chapter 3: Transitional Justice: ‘Truth’ ‘Justice’ and ‘Reconciliation’ in Conflict Resolution.- Chapter 4: The Applicability of Transitional Justice to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.- Chapter 5: International Criminal Justice, the ICC and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.- Chapter 6: The Applicability of Truth Commissions to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.- Chapter 7: Transitional Justice and Civil Society.- Chapter 8: Architecture of Truth and Empathy Commission-Design, Goals and Challenges.