ISBN The Justice Facade ( Trials of Transition in Cambodia ) book English Hardcover 304 pages

What is Justice? Is it always just 'to come'? Can real experience be translated into law? Examining Cambodia's troubled reconciliation Alexander Hinton suggests an approach to justice founded on global ideals of the rule of law democratization and a progressive trajectory towards liberty and freedom and which seeks to align the country with so called universal modes of thought is condemned to failure. Instead Hinton advocates focusing on the individual lived experience and the discourses interstices and the combustive encounters connected with it as a radical alternative. A phenomenology inspired approach towards healing national trauma Hinton's ground-breaking text will make anybody with an interest in transitional justice development humanitarian intervention human rights or peacebuilding question the value of an established truth.