Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor Biographies -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Understanding the Multiplicity of Justice -- Mirrors of justice -- Justice and the geographies of international law -- Justice, power, and narratives of everyday life -- Justice, memory, and the politics of history -- Conclusion: justice and injustice in the current conjuncture -- Bibliography -- 1 Beyond Compliance: Toward an Anthropological Understanding of International Justice -- Approaches to international law -- International law and village law -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Justice and the geographies of international law -- 2 Postcolonial Denial: Why the European Court of Human Rights Finds It So Difficult to Acknowledge Racism -- A late and haphazard case law pointing to a court of denial -- The orientalism of the few verdicts of violation -- Postcolonial logic -- The difficulty, but also responsibility, of naming racism -- No justice without acknowledgment -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3 Proleptic Justice: The Threat of Investigation as a Deterrent to Human Rights Abuses in Côte d'Ivoire -- Introduction: justice, paternalism, and legitimacy -- Human rights talk in a polarized public sphere -- The icc and the judicialization of international politics: "la justice a ses raisons que la raison politique ne connaît pas" -- Ivorian reactions to the threat of international prosecution -- Putting justice regimes into their realpolitik context: the double language of international diplomacy -- Conclusion: the threat of prosecution and the political imaginary -- Acknowledgments -- 4 Global Governmentality: The Case of Transnational Adoption -- Preamble -- Global governmentality -- Justice -- The growth of transnational adoption -- International conventions.

Legal pluralism and the quest for justice -- The african charter on the rights and welfare of the child -- Global governmentality: some reactions from donor countries -- Ethiopia -- India and China -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5 Implementing the International Criminal Court Treaty in Africa: The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations and Government Agencies in Constitutional Reform -- Introduction -- The icc and the interests of justice -- Implementing the rome statute and prosecuting crimes in africa -- Peace and Justice in Uganda -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo Referral -- The ICC and the Darfur Conflict -- ICC Investigations in CAR -- The role of ngos and government agencies in constitutional reform -- Problems and prospects of implementing the rome statute in africa -- The way forward -- 6 Measuring Justice: Internal Conflict over the World Bank's Empirical Approach to Human Rights -- The human rights taboo and its historical origins -- The taboo's evolution -- Selective Application of the Taboo (by Topic and Country) -- Explicit Exceptions to the Taboo -- Variations of the Taboo -- A tension between principles and pragmatism at the world bank -- Interpretive pluralism over human rights -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part II: Justice, Power, and Narratives of Everyday Life -- 7 The Victim Deserving of Global Justice: Power, Caution, and Recovering Individuals -- Introduction -- The victim deserving of global justice -- Advocating for victims: the northern uganda conict -- Assessing Local Justice Options -- Confronting Conceptual Challenges -- Recovering Victims in Legal Processes -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 8 Recognition, Reciprocity, and Justice: Melanesian Reflections on the Rights of Relationships -- Relationships in melanesia -- Justice and the rights of relationships -- Urapmin Courts.

Sex Work in Huli -- The "Compo Girl" Case -- Conclusion: going universal with relational justice -- References -- 9 Irreconcilable Differences?: Shari'ah, Human Rights, and Family Code Reform in Contemporary Morocco -- Shari'ah, human rights, and justice: irreconcilable differences? -- The 2004 mudawwana reform in morocco -- Shari'ah and human rights: reconcilable differences? -- Conclusions -- References -- 10 The Production of "Forgiveness": God, Justice, and State Failure in Post-War Sierra Leone -- Peace and culture versus justice? -- Historicizing forgiveness, fatalism, and justice -- The violence of transitional justice -- "I have not yet seen pa kabbah": god and forgiveness in gbendembu and mateboi -- Justice in a Failed State? -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Justice, Memory, and the Politics of History -- 11 Impunity and Paranoia: Writing Histories of Indonesian Violence -- References -- 12 National Security, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Selective Pursuit of Justice at the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, 1946-1948 -- The allied prosecution of war crimes -- Mass murder and general ishiis program -- Japans use of bw -- The china brief -- Soviet silence -- The immunity bargain -- The consequences of the imtfe suppression of japanese bw crimes -- Acknowledgments -- 13 Justice and the League of Nations Minority Regime -- Justice and difference -- The return to the league minority regime -- The place of justice: architects of the minorities treaties and the league system -- Minority states -- Petitioners -- Minority advocates and league civil servants -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 14 Commissioning Truth, Constructing Silences: The Peruvian Truth Commission and the Other Truths of "Terrorists" -- Introduction -- Peru's War on Terror: Calculating the Cost of "Success" -- Commissioning truth, silencing "subversives".

Reconciling What and with Whom? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Epilogue: The Words We Use: Justice, Human Rights, and the Sense of Injustice -- Introduction -- A corpus of work: 1971-2007 -- The sense of injustice -- Concrete instances -- Toward a nontheory of law and justice -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index.