Torture, truth and justice : the case of Timor-Leste / Elizabeth Stanley.

First published in 2009.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- The international context -- Book overview -- The research context -- Taking a critical approach to human rights research -- Communicating the pain of torture -- Breaking silence through stories -- The research process -- The chapters -- 2.Contextualizing Torture -- The historical use of state torture -- Managing and legitimizing torture -- Torture victims and status -- Class -- R̀ace' -- Gender -- Further status disparities -- Torture's aftermath -- Conclusion -- 3.Introducing Justice -- Globalization, human rights, and the state -- Recognition -- Redistribution -- Structural injustice -- Obscuring the structural landscape -- Participation -- Misframing -- Capabilities -- Institutional frameworks -- Conclusion: Working towards status parity -- 4.Transitional Justice -- The rise of transitional justice -- Trials and truth commissions -- Providing recognition -- Inhibiting recognition -- Problems of the institutional frame --

Contents note continued: Problems of participation -- Promoting redistribution -- Impeding redistribution -- Conclusion -- 5.Torture in Timor-Leste -- General overview -- Torturers and their motives -- The role of UDT and Fretilin in torture -- Indonesian torture -- The militias -- The intelligence networks underpinning torture -- Experiencing torture -- Torture as one violation among many -- Dealing with torture -- Conclusion -- 6.Entrenching Criminal Injustice -- Securing recognition for torture victims -- Limiting recognition: The serious crimes process -- Restrictive rules and decisions -- Institutional incapacity -- Providing political cover -- Embedding impunity: The Ad Hoc Courts in Jakarta -- Creating òthering' -- Practices of exclusion -- Institutional distancing -- Limiting and ignoring local capacities -- Reflecting and deepening structural inequalities -- Consolidating global inequalities of power -- Conclusion: The continuation of injustice --

Contents note continued: 7.Justice in Truth-telling? -- Connecting participation to recognition -- Introducing Community Reconciliation Processes -- Problems of participation -- Victim's capabilities -- Strategic decision-making by victims -- The distancing from and the management of CRP -- Placing institutional mandates ahead of individual needs -- CAVR's connection to criminal justice -- The limits on recognition -- Setting the ground for redistributive justice -- The turn to friendship -- Conclusion -- 8.The Continuation of Violence and Insecurity -- Crafting the state of Timor-Leste -- Participatory injustices -- A limited recognition of historical conflict -- Institutional incapacity and further violations -- Embedding global economic inequalities -- Strategic state-building: In whose interests? -- The personal realities of surviving torture -- Conclusion -- 9.Looking to the Future -- Transitional justice f̀rom below' -- Reflecting torture -- The convergence of injustices -- Rethinking transitional justice -- Towards social change.

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 {u2018}What might torture victims need to move forward from their violation?{u2019} and {u2018}How can official responses provide truth or justice for torture victims?{u2019} 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{u2019} 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.