The bibliography will be illustrated during the course. List of volume (optionally):
Pier Paolo Portinaro, I conti con il passato. Vendetta, amnistia, giustizia, Feltrinelli 2011
Jon Elster, Chiudere i conti. La giustizia nelle transizioni politiche (ed. or. in English 2004), il Mulino 2008
Alexander Demandt (a cura di), Processare il nemico. Da Socrate a Norimberga (1990), a cura di Pier Paolo Portinaro, Einaudi 1996
Marcello Flores (a cura di), Storia, verità, giustizia. I crimini del XX secolo, B. Mondadori 2001
Giudicare e punire. I processi per crimini di guerra tra diritto e politica, a cura di Luca Baldissara e Paolo Pezzino, l’ancora del Mediterraneo 2005
Michele Battini, Peccati di memoria. La mancata Norimberga italiana, Laterza 2003
a) L’Italia repubblicana e i conti con il passato. Procedimenti giudiziari e politiche di risarcimento, a cura di Filippo Focardi-Lutz Klinkhammer, in “Italia contemporanea”, 2009, n. 254
b) Michele Battini, La questione della verità: giustizia, memoria e storia, in “Parolechiave”, 2005, n. 1, pp. 171-79
a) Dal Tribunale di Norimberga alla tutela internazionale dei diritti dell’uomo, a cura di Mariuccia Salvati, in “Passato e presente”, 2002, n. 56, pp. 15-56
b) Storia, verità, diritto, a cura di Emmanuel Betta e Davide Pretini, in “Contemporanea”, 2009 n. 1, pp. 106-156
Giovanni Focardi-Cecilia Nubola (a cura di), Nei tribunali. Pratiche e protagonisti della giustizia di transizione nell’Italia repubblicana, il Mulino 2015
Giorgio Resta-Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich (a cura di), Riparare, risarcire, ricordare. Un dialogo tra storici e giuristi, ESI 2012
Marzia Ponso, Processi, riparazioni, memorie. L’«elaborazione del passato» nella Germania postnazista e postcomunista, Mimesis 2015 (no Parte IV)
a) Carolina Castellano, Gli archivi, la storia, l’elaborazione. Rappresentazioni del passato nella giustizia di transizione tedesca, in “Quaderni storici”, 2008, n. 2, pp. 351-383 b) Antonella Salomoni, L’Europa orientale. Transizioni, stabilizzazioni, nuove identità, in
La storia contemporanea attraverso le riviste, a cura di M. Ridolfi, Rubbettino 2008, pp. 149-164
Marcello Del Pero-Fernando Guirao-Antonio Varsori (a cura di), Democrazie. L’Europa meridionale e la fine delle dittature, Le Monnier 2010
Angela Di Gregorio, Epurazioni e protezione della democrazia. Esperienze e modelli di “giustizia post-autoritaria”, FrancoAngeli 2012
Antoine Garapon, Crimini che non si possono né punire né perdonare. L’emergere di una giustizia internazionale (2002), il Mulino 2004
Antoine Garapon, Chiudere i conti con la storia. Colonizzazione, schiavitù, Shoah, Cortina 2009 (ed. or. 2008)
Ruti G. Teitel, Transitional Justice, Oxford UP 2000
Jon Elster (ed.), Retribution and Reparation in the Transition Democracy, Cambridge UP 2006
(Part I + selected part on the theme chosen: contact the professor9
Neil J. Kritz (ed.), Transitional justice: how emerging democracies reckon with former regimes, 1995, 3 voll.
(selected part on the theme chosen: contact the professor)
Janna Thompson, Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical justice, Cambridge 2002
Antonella Colonna Vilasi, I crimini internazionali, Eur 2008
Joanna R. Quinn (ed.), Reconciliation(s). Transitional Justice in Postconflict Societes, McGill-Queen’s UP 2009 (selected part on the theme chosen: contact the professor)
Ruti G. Teitel, Globalizing Transitional Justice. Contemporary essays, Oxford UP 2014 (Part I, II e III)
Phil Clark-Zachary D. Kaufman (eds.), After genocide. Transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation in Rwanda and beyond, Hurst & Company 2008
➢ David Roman, Lustration and Transitional justice. Personnel system in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, University of Pennsylvania Press 2011 – da acquistare, o in biblioteche non fiorentine
➢ Il Portogallo e la transizione alla democrazia, n.s. “Storia e problemi contemporanei”, 2010, n. 54 – Bib. Umanistica
➢ Naomi Roht-Arriaza-Javier Mariezcurrena (eds.), Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century. Beyond Truth versus Justice, Cambridge UP 2006 (parti da selezionare a seconda del tema o paese prescelto: contattare docente) - Bib. Scienze sociali
➢ Paul Gready, The Era of Transitional justice. The aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and beyond, Routledge 2010 – Bib. Scienze sociali
➢ Christian Delage, Caught on Camera: Film in the Courtroom from the Nuremberg Trials to the Trials of the Khmer Rouge, University of Pennsylvania Press 2014 (ed. or. 2006)
Learning Objectives
KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVES
- knowledge of the main interpretations about transitional justice in the Contemporary age
EXPERTISE OBJECTIVES
- skill in recognize the main historical and historiographical issues, and the sources, of a common and controversial practice in Contemporary age.
BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES
- to encorauge critical reflection on the origin and development of one of the key-aspects of our present, with particular attention to the conflicts and wars and human rights
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Contemporary history, with particular attention to the XX century
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons (also by experts), discussions on specific issues by the students (mandatory for LM84 students, optional for other Cds's students)
Further information
Mandatory inscription at the beginning of the course. Mandatory frequente.
Use of the Course e-learning platform Moodle as repository for documents, sources, bibliography
Type of Assessment
The examination will take place in diversified manner, depending on the students, belonging to different courses of study
I) Students belonging to Cds LM84 (mandatory) and to Cds LM85 and LM37 (optional):
a) oral exercise during the course (in itinere) on a theme agreed upon with the professor
b) written report on the exercise (to be delivered almost one week before the exam: maximum 20.000 characters, all included)
c) oral final examination, consisting of three parts:
1) discussion about wtritten report
2) a question to verify the understanding of the main arguments proposed by the chosen volume (on a topic different from the one addressed in the exercise)
3) a question to verify the understanding of the material available on the Moodle platform (illustrated during the course)
The final evaluation consists of all the assessments obtained in parts a), b) and c).
All students have to to demonstrate a sufficient level of preparation in all three parts to pass the test.
The exam aims to verify:
- the comprehension of the main processes that characterized the relationship between history, politics and justice, i.e. to the different phases of transitional justice
- the comprehension of the main categories used to describe the mentioned phenomena
- the skill to distinguish and to use the different types of sources for the study of the mentioned phenomena
- the skill to establish relevant connections between events
- the skill to adopt the terminology of the discipline (in the oral and written report)
II) Students of the LM65 and LM37 cds who do not choose the typology I and students of other Cds, Erasmus students, part time students:
The examination is diversified, according to the level of knowledge of Contemporary history:
a) Students without certificated knowledge of Contemporary history:
I) Gabriele Turi, Il nostro mondo. Dalle grandi rivoluzioni all'11 settembre, Laterza 2006 (mandatory); 2) one volume (optionally: see bibliography)
b) Students with certificated knowledge of Contemporary history: 2 volumes chosen by the bibliography (on different thopics)
The exam, for a) and b) students, consists in an oral examination, about at least three questions, related to:
1) a question to verify the level of knowledge obtained by reading the basic text (type a) and the chosen volume (type b)
2) a question to verify the understanding of the main themes proposed by the chosen volume (typology a) or by the second chosen volume (typology b)
3) a question to verify the understanding of the material available on the Moodle platform (illustrated during the course and available to all types of students, after iscription to the course)
The final evaluation consists of all the assessments obtained in the three parts.
It is necessary to demonstrate a sufficient level of knowledge in all three parts to pass the test.
The exam aims to verify
- the comprehension of the main processes that have characterized contemporary history
- the comprehension of the main categories proposed to frame the mentioned phenomena
- the knowledge of the main events and periodic moments that characterized the various phases of transitional justice during the 20th century
- the skill to distinguish and to use the different kinds of sources for the study of the mentioned phenomena
- the skill to establish relevant connections between events
- the capacity to adopt the specific terminology of the discipline in an appropriate manner
Course program
Coming to terms with the past. Transitional justice in Contemporary age.
From a historical point of view (paying attention to the political and juridical connections) we'll analyse various cases of "closing the books with the past" in the XX and XXi centuries in the world (Europe, America, Africa, Asia).
Il will be analyzed and discussed, with the active partecipations by the students, some sources:
judiciary, journalistic and memorial ones; media (TV, cinema), etc.