A line under the past: Performative temporal segregation in transitional justice
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Acknowledgments I would like to thank all the interviewees that partook in this project. am also grateful Berber Bevernage and Maja Davidovic for their thoughtful engagement with earlier drafts of work. Funding Research article was funded by Carnegie Trust Universities Scotland.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Human Rights
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1475-4843', '1475-4835']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2021.1979388