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International Journal of Transitional Justice Advance Access originally published online on September 22, 2009
International Journal of Transitional Justice 2009 3(3):470-473; doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijp016
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Response by Mahmood Mamdani

Mahmood Mamdani

Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, USA. Email: mm1124@columbia.edu

Response by Mahmood Mamdani

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

I welcome this opportunity to respond to the main issues raised in Eduardo Gonzalez-Cueva's review of my book.

Gonzalez-Cueva wonders why the Peruvian example of a happy collaboration between lawyers and historians could not be emulated in African contexts like Darfur. He notes that ‘Peruvian historians did not let structural explanations ... take the place of individual agency and, further, criminal individual agency.’ Thus his conclusion: ‘One is left wondering whether Mamdani has any space at all in his framework for criminal accountability.’

The answer lies in the one issue that Gonzalez-Cueva seems determined to avoid: context. The conflict in Peru was over by the time its TRC was constituted, which is why the call for criminal . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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