Chandra Lekha Sriram
Biographic Data
| ID | 308087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chandra Lekha Sriram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chandra Lekha |
| FAMILY NAME | Sriram |
| SIGNATURE | SRIRAM C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Do transitional justice measures help foster democratic security forces
Transitional justice faces growing expectations about its ability to support democratisation processes in countries transitioning from conflict and/or authoritarian rule. Empirical research investigating these claims, however, remains divided on its effects. Certain aspects also remain underexplored, such as transitional justice’s impact on the security forces, despite broad recognition that the latter’s transformation is key to supporting transi…
Peace, Governance and Rule of Law, and Transitional Justice: Interrogating the Connections
In conflict-affected countries, significant political, peacekeeping and development resources are devoted to preventing future conflict, frequently through the use of transitional justice and rule of law promotion, often linked to promoting peace agreements with specific governance measures. However, despite the importance of the goals and the scale of resources committed, the evidence that such measures promote peace is mixed. Further, the way i…
Beyond Transitional Justice: Peace, Governance, and Rule of Law
Transitional justice measures are frequently expected to help promote peace in conflict-affected countries, through measures that rely heavily upon legal or legalized processes such as trials and commissions of inquiry. They are also often expected to influence or promote reform in legal processes and institutions, including the judiciary, the constitution, and legislation, in ways that are expected to help promote peace in future post-conflict s…
Transitional justice theories
Fighting for Justice (and Survival): Kenyan Civil Society Accountability Strategies and Their Enemies
Drawing on interviews with civil society actors and international donors, this article examines the role of Kenyan civil society in advancing accountability for serious international crimes, specifically the 2007–2008 post-election violence. We consider civil society as recipient and transmitter of norms of accountability and as transformer and user of such norms, as well as civil society strategies for engaging with actors domestically and inter…
Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century
Contemporary Review valuable and stimulating contribution to our understanding of violence, crime and war provides for a richness that lacks in much other work in this particular field... makes for interesting reading on the possibilities for the management of armed conflict. - International Affairs
Spoilers of Justice
Making rights real? Minority and gender provisions and power-sharing arrangements
Power-sharing arrangements have lasting effects on societies where they are put in place, as they can not only allocate access to power to particular groups in the short to medium term but also shape the legal and institutional landscape of the post-conflict country. There are potential risks thus to the protection of human rights inherent in power-sharing arrangements. First, those given the most significant benefits in power-sharing arrangement…
Kenya in the Shadow of the ICC: Complementarity, Gravity and Impact
Following contested elections in late 2007, Kenya experienced brief but significant violence. International pressure and diplomacy led to a coalition government, and a commission of inquiry recommended the creation of an internationalized criminal tribunal or International Criminal Court (ICC) involvement, should a tribunal not be created. The government of Kenya both promised to create a hybrid tribunal and to cooperate with the ICC, yet has arg…
The big fish won't fry themselves: Criminal accountability for post-election violence in Kenya
This article examines the demand for criminal accountability for the atrocities committed after Kenya's contested December 2007 elections. It explains why, despite strong popular desire for accountability through prosecutions and the threat of and actual International Criminal Court (ICC) involvement, the government has failed to take concrete steps to try those believed primarily responsible. The article argues that the fundamental reason why th…
Power Sharing and Transitional Justice: A Clash of Paradigms
Recent peace negotiations practice has given rise to the emergence of two paradigms. In line with normative developments in global human rights protection, internationally brokered peace processes often address the options for accountability for abuses committed in the past and generally cannot include blanket amnesties. At the same time, many agreements end armed conflicts by offering power-sharing incentives for warring parties. In most cases, …
Justice delayed? Internationalised criminal tribunals and peace-building in Lebanon, Bosnia and Cambodia
In countries emerging from violent conflict and/or mass atrocity, there is an urgent need to promote stability and often also widespread demand for accountability for abuses which have taken place. Debate has raged among scholars and practitioners about whether justice should be sacrificed or delayed for the sake of peace, or should be promoted even if it is in the short term destabilising. In many countries emerging from conflict processes of ac…
Surviving Field Research: Working in Violent and Difficult Situations
1. Introduction: Surviving Research Julie Mertus 2. Demystifying field research John C. King Part 1: Ethics 3. Exceeding Scholarly Responsibility: IRBs and Political Constraints Judy Hemming 4. Methods and Ethics with Research Teams and NGOs: Comparing Experiences Across the Border of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo Elizabeth Levy Paluck 5. Maintenance of Standards of Protection during Writeup and Publication Chandra Lekha Sriram Part 2: …
DDR and transitional justice: Bridging the Divide
This article explores the complex relationship between disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of ex-combatants (DDR) and transitional justice. While both DDR and transitional justice often operate simultaneously, neither process has traditionally been designed with the other in mind. In fact, they are often in tension or competition, pursuing competing demands and potentially drawing on the same scarce donor pools. While scholars and pract…
The Perils of Power-Sharing: Africa and Beyond
The purpose of international conflict-resolution efforts is, in the short term, to bring an end to violent armed conflict, and, in the medium to longer term, to prevent the revival of conflict. However, at least one of the mechanisms often utilised in conflict resolution and peace agreements, power-sharing, may not only prove problematic in early negotiation and implementation, but may potentially be at odds with the longer-term goal of preventin…
Peace as Governance: Power-Sharing, Armed Groups and Contemporary Peace Negotiations
A critical study of incentives commonly used to induce non-state armed groups to engage in peace negotiations. Offers a closer analysis of these incentives, which offer such groups a place or a stake
Geographies of Crime and Justice: Contemporary Transitional Justice and the Creation of 'Zones of Impunity
This article explores some of the challenges that transnational crimes pose to the operation of transnational justice. By transnational crimes, we mean serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law that transcend national borders and are perpetrated by state or non-state actors. Many national and international legal mechanisms may only address a segment of these crimes, creating what we refer to as ‘zones of impunity.’ Thi…
Justice as Peace? Liberal Peacebuilding and Strategies of Transitional Justice
A forceful criticism of liberal peacebuilding has developed in recent years, challenging its twin emphases on democratisation and marketisation and the presumption that democratisation and market liberalisation are themselves sources of peace, when evidence demonstrates that each is more often destabilising and may even provoke a return to conflict. This literature has not, however, offered such an analysis of transitional justice, which is centr…
International law, International Relations theory and post-atrocity justice: Towards a genuine dialogue
Journal Article International law, International Relations theory and post-atrocity justice: towards a genuine dialogue Get access CHANDRA LEKHA SRIRAM CHANDRA LEKHA SRIRAM 1Professor of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law. She is co-editor (with Tom Biersteker, Peter Spiro, and Veronica Raffo) of International law and International Relations: bridging theory and practice (forthcoming 2006) and is the author of Confronting…
The Limits of International Law and The Politics of International Law
The Limits of International Law. By Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 272p. $29.95. The Politics of International Law. Edited by Christian Reus-Smit. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 344p. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. Is international law really law? If it is law, is it effective in constraining state behavior against interest? These two questions have vexed international lawyers and those in…
Globalising Justice: From Universal Jurisdiction to Mixed Tribunals
This article examines the burgeoning phenomenon of what is called globalised or externalised justice, wherein prosecutions for past atrocities take place far from the original locus of the crime, through the exercise of universal jurisdiction or the work of ad hoc tribunals. It first examines some of the pitfalls that come with the externalised justice of universal jurisdiction. In particular, doing justice far from the locus of the original crim…
From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Conflict
How can the United Nations, regional and subregional organizations, government donors, and other policymakers best apply the tools of conflict prevention to the wide range of intrastate conflict situations actually found in the field? The detailed case studies and analytical chapters in From Promise to Practice offer operational lessons for fashioning strategy and tactics to meet the challenges of specific conflicts, both potential and actual.
Dilemmas of accountability: Politics, the military and commissions of inquiry during an ongoing civil war the Sri Lankan case
This article seeks to contribute to the literature on transitional justice by examining the somewhat novel case of Sri Lanka — one where the country is not emerging from authoritarian rule, but is rather a relatively democratic one yet engaged in an internal armed conflict. I argue that even in such novel cases, same sorts of trade‐offs must be made with the security forces as are made in ‘traditional’ transitional situations. Specifically, the p…
Exercising Universal Jurisdiction: Contemporary Disparate Practice
This article surveys recent practice in the application of universal jurisdiction to seek the accountability for crimes committed in another jurisdiction, where the accused is present and the victims are not of the pursuing state's populace. While the principle of universal jurisdiction is well established in customary international law, its application is developing in a piecemeal fashion, with many judges unsure of the scope or power of the pri…
Enhancing Global Governance: Towards a New Diplomacy
Enhancing Global Governance analyzes the means by which global governance has been promoted by innovative diplomatic practices. The impetus for a new diplomacy has emerged not from traditional channels, but through a series of cross cutting coalitions among like-minded states and civil society. The question of how these alternative leadership forms have been expressed through the United Nations system, together with an evaluation of the impact th…
Justice as Peace? Liberal Peacebuilding and Strategies of Transitional Justice
A forceful criticism of liberal peacebuilding has developed in recent years, challenging its twin emphases on democratisation and marketisation and the presumption that democratisation and market liberalisation are themselves sources of peace, when evidence demonstrates that each is more often destabilising and may even provoke a return to conflict. This literature has not, however, offered such an analysis of transitional justice, which is centr…
The Perils of Power-Sharing: Africa and Beyond
The purpose of international conflict-resolution efforts is, in the short term, to bring an end to violent armed conflict, and, in the medium to longer term, to prevent the revival of conflict. However, at least one of the mechanisms often utilised in conflict resolution and peace agreements, power-sharing, may not only prove problematic in early negotiation and implementation, but may potentially be at odds with the longer-term goal of preventin…
Enhancing Global Governance: Towards a New Diplomacy
Enhancing Global Governance analyzes the means by which global governance has been promoted by innovative diplomatic practices. The impetus for a new diplomacy has emerged not from traditional channels, but through a series of cross cutting coalitions among like-minded states and civil society. The question of how these alternative leadership forms have been expressed through the United Nations system, together with an evaluation of the impact th…
The big fish won't fry themselves: Criminal accountability for post-election violence in Kenya
This article examines the demand for criminal accountability for the atrocities committed after Kenya's contested December 2007 elections. It explains why, despite strong popular desire for accountability through prosecutions and the threat of and actual International Criminal Court (ICC) involvement, the government has failed to take concrete steps to try those believed primarily responsible. The article argues that the fundamental reason why th…
Beyond Transitional Justice: Peace, Governance, and Rule of Law
Transitional justice measures are frequently expected to help promote peace in conflict-affected countries, through measures that rely heavily upon legal or legalized processes such as trials and commissions of inquiry. They are also often expected to influence or promote reform in legal processes and institutions, including the judiciary, the constitution, and legislation, in ways that are expected to help promote peace in future post-conflict s…
Geographies of Crime and Justice: Contemporary Transitional Justice and the Creation of 'Zones of Impunity
This article explores some of the challenges that transnational crimes pose to the operation of transnational justice. By transnational crimes, we mean serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law that transcend national borders and are perpetrated by state or non-state actors. Many national and international legal mechanisms may only address a segment of these crimes, creating what we refer to as ‘zones of impunity.’ Thi…
Making rights real? Minority and gender provisions and power-sharing arrangements
Power-sharing arrangements have lasting effects on societies where they are put in place, as they can not only allocate access to power to particular groups in the short to medium term but also shape the legal and institutional landscape of the post-conflict country. There are potential risks thus to the protection of human rights inherent in power-sharing arrangements. First, those given the most significant benefits in power-sharing arrangement…
DDR and transitional justice: Bridging the Divide
This article explores the complex relationship between disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of ex-combatants (DDR) and transitional justice. While both DDR and transitional justice often operate simultaneously, neither process has traditionally been designed with the other in mind. In fact, they are often in tension or competition, pursuing competing demands and potentially drawing on the same scarce donor pools. While scholars and pract…
Power Sharing and Transitional Justice: A Clash of Paradigms
Recent peace negotiations practice has given rise to the emergence of two paradigms. In line with normative developments in global human rights protection, internationally brokered peace processes often address the options for accountability for abuses committed in the past and generally cannot include blanket amnesties. At the same time, many agreements end armed conflicts by offering power-sharing incentives for warring parties. In most cases, …
Kenya in the Shadow of the ICC: Complementarity, Gravity and Impact
Following contested elections in late 2007, Kenya experienced brief but significant violence. International pressure and diplomacy led to a coalition government, and a commission of inquiry recommended the creation of an internationalized criminal tribunal or International Criminal Court (ICC) involvement, should a tribunal not be created. The government of Kenya both promised to create a hybrid tribunal and to cooperate with the ICC, yet has arg…
Truth commissions and the quest for justice: Stability and accountability after internal strife
Fighting for Justice (and Survival): Kenyan Civil Society Accountability Strategies and Their Enemies
Drawing on interviews with civil society actors and international donors, this article examines the role of Kenyan civil society in advancing accountability for serious international crimes, specifically the 2007–2008 post-election violence. We consider civil society as recipient and transmitter of norms of accountability and as transformer and user of such norms, as well as civil society strategies for engaging with actors domestically and inter…
Spoilers of Justice
International law, International Relations theory and post-atrocity justice: Towards a genuine dialogue
Journal Article International law, International Relations theory and post-atrocity justice: towards a genuine dialogue Get access CHANDRA LEKHA SRIRAM CHANDRA LEKHA SRIRAM 1Professor of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law. She is co-editor (with Tom Biersteker, Peter Spiro, and Veronica Raffo) of International law and International Relations: bridging theory and practice (forthcoming 2006) and is the author of Confronting…
Globalising Justice: From Universal Jurisdiction to Mixed Tribunals
This article examines the burgeoning phenomenon of what is called globalised or externalised justice, wherein prosecutions for past atrocities take place far from the original locus of the crime, through the exercise of universal jurisdiction or the work of ad hoc tribunals. It first examines some of the pitfalls that come with the externalised justice of universal jurisdiction. In particular, doing justice far from the locus of the original crim…
Dilemmas of accountability: Politics, the military and commissions of inquiry during an ongoing civil war the Sri Lankan case
This article seeks to contribute to the literature on transitional justice by examining the somewhat novel case of Sri Lanka — one where the country is not emerging from authoritarian rule, but is rather a relatively democratic one yet engaged in an internal armed conflict. I argue that even in such novel cases, same sorts of trade‐offs must be made with the security forces as are made in ‘traditional’ transitional situations. Specifically, the p…
Truth commissions and the quest for justice: Stability and accountability after internal strife
Truth Commissions and Political Theory: Tough Moral Choices in Transitional Situations
The basic question this paper asks is: in transitional regimes considering pursuing accountability for past human rights violations, are there instances where goods other than justice might appropriately be pursued? The paper seeks to answer this question not by adverting to very loaded contemporary debates on the matter, but rather by grounding the question (and answer) more firmly. Drawing on three rich traditions of political theory: utilitari…
Intervention in a Troubled World: Moving Beyond Shawcross and His Critics
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Dilemmas of accountability: Politics, the military and commissions of inquiry during an ongoing civil war the Sri Lankan case
This article seeks to contribute to the literature on transitional justice by examining the somewhat novel case of Sri Lanka — one where the country is not emerging from authoritarian rule, but is rather a relatively democratic one yet engaged in an internal armed conflict. I argue that even in such novel cases, same sorts of trade‐offs must be made with the security forces as are made in ‘traditional’ transitional situations. Specifically, the p…
Exercising Universal Jurisdiction: Contemporary Disparate Practice
This article surveys recent practice in the application of universal jurisdiction to seek the accountability for crimes committed in another jurisdiction, where the accused is present and the victims are not of the pursuing state's populace. While the principle of universal jurisdiction is well established in customary international law, its application is developing in a piecemeal fashion, with many judges unsure of the scope or power of the pri…
Enhancing Global Governance: Towards a New Diplomacy
Enhancing Global Governance analyzes the means by which global governance has been promoted by innovative diplomatic practices. The impetus for a new diplomacy has emerged not from traditional channels, but through a series of cross cutting coalitions among like-minded states and civil society. The question of how these alternative leadership forms have been expressed through the United Nations system, together with an evaluation of the impact th…
From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Conflict
How can the United Nations, regional and subregional organizations, government donors, and other policymakers best apply the tools of conflict prevention to the wide range of intrastate conflict situations actually found in the field? The detailed case studies and analytical chapters in From Promise to Practice offer operational lessons for fashioning strategy and tactics to meet the challenges of specific conflicts, both potential and actual.
Globalising Justice: From Universal Jurisdiction to Mixed Tribunals
This article examines the burgeoning phenomenon of what is called globalised or externalised justice, wherein prosecutions for past atrocities take place far from the original locus of the crime, through the exercise of universal jurisdiction or the work of ad hoc tribunals. It first examines some of the pitfalls that come with the externalised justice of universal jurisdiction. In particular, doing justice far from the locus of the original crim…
The Limits of International Law and The Politics of International Law
The Limits of International Law. By Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 272p. $29.95. The Politics of International Law. Edited by Christian Reus-Smit. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 344p. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. Is international law really law? If it is law, is it effective in constraining state behavior against interest? These two questions have vexed international lawyers and those in…
International law, International Relations theory and post-atrocity justice: Towards a genuine dialogue
Journal Article International law, International Relations theory and post-atrocity justice: towards a genuine dialogue Get access CHANDRA LEKHA SRIRAM CHANDRA LEKHA SRIRAM 1Professor of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law. She is co-editor (with Tom Biersteker, Peter Spiro, and Veronica Raffo) of International law and International Relations: bridging theory and practice (forthcoming 2006) and is the author of Confronting…
Geographies of Crime and Justice: Contemporary Transitional Justice and the Creation of 'Zones of Impunity
This article explores some of the challenges that transnational crimes pose to the operation of transnational justice. By transnational crimes, we mean serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law that transcend national borders and are perpetrated by state or non-state actors. Many national and international legal mechanisms may only address a segment of these crimes, creating what we refer to as ‘zones of impunity.’ Thi…
Justice as Peace? Liberal Peacebuilding and Strategies of Transitional Justice
A forceful criticism of liberal peacebuilding has developed in recent years, challenging its twin emphases on democratisation and marketisation and the presumption that democratisation and market liberalisation are themselves sources of peace, when evidence demonstrates that each is more often destabilising and may even provoke a return to conflict. This literature has not, however, offered such an analysis of transitional justice, which is centr…
Peace as Governance: Power-Sharing, Armed Groups and Contemporary Peace Negotiations
A critical study of incentives commonly used to induce non-state armed groups to engage in peace negotiations. Offers a closer analysis of these incentives, which offer such groups a place or a stake
Surviving Field Research: Working in Violent and Difficult Situations
1. Introduction: Surviving Research Julie Mertus 2. Demystifying field research John C. King Part 1: Ethics 3. Exceeding Scholarly Responsibility: IRBs and Political Constraints Judy Hemming 4. Methods and Ethics with Research Teams and NGOs: Comparing Experiences Across the Border of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo Elizabeth Levy Paluck 5. Maintenance of Standards of Protection during Writeup and Publication Chandra Lekha Sriram Part 2: …
DDR and transitional justice: Bridging the Divide
This article explores the complex relationship between disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of ex-combatants (DDR) and transitional justice. While both DDR and transitional justice often operate simultaneously, neither process has traditionally been designed with the other in mind. In fact, they are often in tension or competition, pursuing competing demands and potentially drawing on the same scarce donor pools. While scholars and pract…
The Perils of Power-Sharing: Africa and Beyond
The purpose of international conflict-resolution efforts is, in the short term, to bring an end to violent armed conflict, and, in the medium to longer term, to prevent the revival of conflict. However, at least one of the mechanisms often utilised in conflict resolution and peace agreements, power-sharing, may not only prove problematic in early negotiation and implementation, but may potentially be at odds with the longer-term goal of preventin…
Power Sharing and Transitional Justice: A Clash of Paradigms
Recent peace negotiations practice has given rise to the emergence of two paradigms. In line with normative developments in global human rights protection, internationally brokered peace processes often address the options for accountability for abuses committed in the past and generally cannot include blanket amnesties. At the same time, many agreements end armed conflicts by offering power-sharing incentives for warring parties. In most cases, …
Justice delayed? Internationalised criminal tribunals and peace-building in Lebanon, Bosnia and Cambodia
In countries emerging from violent conflict and/or mass atrocity, there is an urgent need to promote stability and often also widespread demand for accountability for abuses which have taken place. Debate has raged among scholars and practitioners about whether justice should be sacrificed or delayed for the sake of peace, or should be promoted even if it is in the short term destabilising. In many countries emerging from conflict processes of ac…
Kenya in the Shadow of the ICC: Complementarity, Gravity and Impact
Following contested elections in late 2007, Kenya experienced brief but significant violence. International pressure and diplomacy led to a coalition government, and a commission of inquiry recommended the creation of an internationalized criminal tribunal or International Criminal Court (ICC) involvement, should a tribunal not be created. The government of Kenya both promised to create a hybrid tribunal and to cooperate with the ICC, yet has arg…
The big fish won't fry themselves: Criminal accountability for post-election violence in Kenya
This article examines the demand for criminal accountability for the atrocities committed after Kenya's contested December 2007 elections. It explains why, despite strong popular desire for accountability through prosecutions and the threat of and actual International Criminal Court (ICC) involvement, the government has failed to take concrete steps to try those believed primarily responsible. The article argues that the fundamental reason why th…
Spoilers of Justice
Making rights real? Minority and gender provisions and power-sharing arrangements
Power-sharing arrangements have lasting effects on societies where they are put in place, as they can not only allocate access to power to particular groups in the short to medium term but also shape the legal and institutional landscape of the post-conflict country. There are potential risks thus to the protection of human rights inherent in power-sharing arrangements. First, those given the most significant benefits in power-sharing arrangement…
Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century
Contemporary Review valuable and stimulating contribution to our understanding of violence, crime and war provides for a richness that lacks in much other work in this particular field... makes for interesting reading on the possibilities for the management of armed conflict. - International Affairs
Fighting for Justice (and Survival): Kenyan Civil Society Accountability Strategies and Their Enemies
Drawing on interviews with civil society actors and international donors, this article examines the role of Kenyan civil society in advancing accountability for serious international crimes, specifically the 2007–2008 post-election violence. We consider civil society as recipient and transmitter of norms of accountability and as transformer and user of such norms, as well as civil society strategies for engaging with actors domestically and inter…
Transitional justice theories
Political science (27 works) · Law (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Economic Justice (17 works) · Politics (16 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (15 works) · International Law and Human Rights (14 works) · Transitional justice (11 works) · Accountability (10 works)