Series on Transitional Justice 25 results
Countries emerging from long periods of authoritarian rule must often confront a legacy of gross human rights abuses perpetrated over many years. During the past two decades, these age-old issues have been termed “problems of transitional justice”, both by academics and policy makers around the world. Given the frequency with which these problems arise, as well as the complexity of the issues involved, it is striking that no book series has taken the issue of transitional justice as its point of focus.
The Series on Transitional Justice offers a platform for high-quality research within the rapidly growing field of transitional justice. This research is, of necessity, inter-disciplinary in nature, drawing from disciplines such as law, political science, history, sociology, criminology, anthropology and psychology, as well as from various specialised fields of study such as human rights, victimology and peace studies. It is furthermore international in outlook, drawing on the knowledge and experience of academics and other specialists in many different regions of the world.
The series is aimed at a variety of audiences who are either working or interested in fields such as crime and justice; human rights; humanitarian law and human security; conflict resolution and peace building. These audiences may include academics, researchers, students, policy makers, practitioners, non-governmental organisations and the media.
Editorial board:
- Prof. Stephan Parmentier (University of Leuven, Belgium)
- Prof. Jeremy Sarkin (NOVA University of Lisbon School of Law, Portugal) and
- Dr. Mina Rauschenbach (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland and University of Leuven, Belgium)
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Transitional Justice, Impunity and the Judicialization of Politics
Book | 1st edition 2025 | Europe, United Kingdom | Michael Humphrey, Estela ValverdeOver the past 40 years, transitional justice has evolved to become a UN-endorsed international norm, underpinning peacemaking and democratic transition after large-scale political violence. The judicialization of political conflict now dominates strategies to end violence and produce a durable peace. A unique approach of this book is to use comparative case studies of political transitions in Uruguay, Lebanon, Spain, Kenya and Colombia to illustrate the historical development of transitional justice which gradually extended the reach of international human rights law to manage political transitions, thereby limiting impunity. Through these case studies, the book shows how transitional justice intervention has been shaped by distinct histories of conflict, elite pactism and transitional jurisprudence.
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Transitional Justice in Brazil
Walking the TightropeBook | 1st edition 2023 | World | Lucia Elena Arantes Ferreira BastosThis book offers a Transitional Justice framework in the Brazilian case by assessing the mechanisms associated with truth, memory, and justice, but also including a holistic approach covering the role of civil society, reparations for indigenous people, initiatives on gender, and complicit corporations.€125.00 incl. VAT -
Latin American Experiences with Truth Commission Recommendations
Beyond Words Vol. IIBook | 1st edition 2022 | World | Elin Skaar, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Jemima Garcia-GodosBased on fieldwork unprecedented in scope, this project provides the first systematic study of the formulation and implementation of the recommendations of 13 Latin American truth commissions. Vol. II consists of 11 in-depth case studies from Latin America.€237.99 incl. VAT -
Exploring Truth Commission Recommendations in a Comparative Perspective: Beyond Words Vol. I
Beyond Words Vol. IBook | 1st edition 2022 | World | Elin Skaar, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Jemima Garcia-GodosBased on fieldwork unprecedented in scope, this project provides the first systematic study of the formulation and implementation of the recommendations of 13 Latin American truth commissions. Vol. I focuses on cross-country analysis.€89.00 incl. VAT -
Rights of Families of Disappeared Persons
How International Bodies Address the Needs of Families of Disappeared Persons in EuropeBook | 1st edition 2021 | World | Grazyna BaranowskaThis book examines how international judicial and non-judicial bodies in Europe address the needs of the families of forcibly disappeared persons.€90.00 incl. VAT -
Just Memories
Remembrance and Restoration in the Aftermath of Political ViolenceBook | 1st edition 2020 | World | Camila de Gamboa Tapias, Bert van RoermundHow do memory and remembrance relate to transitional justice that lays emphasis on restoration? What is captured and what is obliterated in individual and collective efforts to come to terms with a violent past? Across this volume consisting of twelve in-depth contributions, the politics of memory in various countries are related to restorative justice under four headings: restoring trust, restoring truth, restoring land and restoring law.€86.00 incl. VAT -
The Global Impact and Legacy of Truth Commissions
Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Jeremy SarkinThis book emerges at a time when there is growing criticism of both truth commissions and transitional justice as a whole. Its purpose is to understand the impact and legacy of these institutions over the past fifty years.€86.00 incl. VAT -
Bridging Divides in Transitional Justice
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of CambodiaBook | 1st edition 2017 | World | Cheryl S. WhiteThis book focuses on the radical communist revolution in Cambodia and the culture of impunity and silence imposed on the society under successive national governments. Dialogue on the suppressed past began in 2006 as key figures of the regime were brought before the in situ internationalised criminal court, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.€80.00 incl. VAT -
Reparations for Child Victims of Armed Conflict
State of the Field and Current ChallengesBook | 1st edition 2017 | World | Francesca CaponeThis book offers an analysis of the existing normative framework regulating the right to reparation for child victims of armed conflict. The study questions whether the current framework is sufficiently developed to provide child victims with adequate, effective and prompt reparations.€74.00 incl. VAT -
Facing the Past
Amending Historical Injustices Through Instruments of Transitional JusticeBook | 1st edition 2016 | World | Peter MalcontentHow do societies at the national and international level try to overcome historical injustices? What remedies did they develop to do justice to victims of large scale atrocities? And even more important: what have we learned from the implementation of these instruments?€92.00 incl. VATStudent price: €54.00 -
Child Soldiers and Transitional Justice
Protecting the Rights of Children Involved in Armed ConflictsBook | 1st edition 2016 | World | Bo Viktor NylundIn a political climate that holds limited promise for addressing the issue of child recruitment, Child Soldiers and Transitional Justice: Protecting the Rights of Children Involved in Armed Conflicts challenges the trend towards a narrow focus on recruitment and use of the child, and seeks to contribute to more effective prevention and responses that offer the child a chance of recovery, reconciliation and reintegration.€80.00 incl. VAT -
Transitional Criminal Justice in Post-Dictatorial and Post-Conflict Societies
Book | 1st edition 2015 | World | Agata Fijalkowski, Raluca GrosescuStates that are in transition after a dictatorship or a violent conflict face formidable challenges concerning accountability for human rights violations. This edited collection considers criminal justice as a method of addressing state violence committed by non-democratic regimes. Its main objectives concern a fresh, contemporary, and critical analysis of transitional criminal justice as a concept and its related measures, beginning with the initiatives since the fall of the Communist regimes in Europe in 1989.€97.00 incl. VAT -
The Performance of Memory as Transitional Justice
Book | 1st edition 2014 | World | S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. OttanelliBased on case studies spanning time and geography from the Spanish to the Nigerian civil wars, to government repression in Argentina and genocidal policies in Guatemala and Rwanda and, finally, to forced population removal in Australia and Israel, this collection represents a focused attempt to come to grips with some of the strategies used to publicly engage with traumatic memory work.€69.00 incl. VAT -
Transitional Justice and Memory in Europe (1945-2013)
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Nico WoutersWhat lessons can we learn from history, and more importantly: how? Efficient transitional justice policy evaluation requires, inter alia, an historical dimension. Nevertheless, history as a profession remains somewhat absent in the multi-disciplinary field of transitional justice. The idea that we should learn lessons from history continues to create unease among most professional historians. This volume is a major contribution in the search for synergies between the agenda of historical research and the rapidly developing field of transitional justice.€86.00 incl. VAT -
Law, Nation-Building & Transformation
The South African experience in perspectiveBook | 1st edition 2014 | World | Catherine Jenkins, Max du PlessisIn this volume, fifteen contributors from the disciplines of law, politics and sociology reflect on South Africa’s transition to democracy and the challenges of transformation and nation-building that have confronted the country since the first democratic elections of 1994. The range of topics covered is expansive, in keeping with a broader than usual definition of transitional justice which, it is argued, is more appropriate for states faced with the mammoth tasks of reform and institution-building in a context in which democracy has never been firmly rooted and the existence of widespread poverty gives rise to the dual demands for both bread and freedom.€86.00 incl. VAT -
Historical Memory and Criminal Justice in Spain
A Case of Late Transitional JusticeBook | 1st edition 2013 | Europe | Josep M. Tamarit Sumalla, Josep Tamarit SumallaThe Spanish transition from the Franco regime to democracy has not been a very popular subject amongst researchers examining transitional justice at the international level. This book analyses, above all, the laws, policies and judicial decisions adopted in Spain that were related to the construction of the past and could therefore be understood as measures of transitional justice.€79.00 incl. VAT -
Feminist Perspectives on Transitional Justice
From International and Criminal to Alternative Forms of JusticeBook | 1st edition 2013 | World | Martha Albertson Fineman, Estelle ZinsstagThis book offers some insights into women’s perspectives and feminist views on the topic of transitional justice or ‘justice in transition’. Bringing feminism into the conversation, expands the possibilities for a transformative justice approach after a period of conflict or insecurity, not by replacing it with feminist theory, but by broadening the scope and vision of the potential responses.€86.00 incl. VAT -
Sexual Violence as an International Crime: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Book | 1st edition 2013 | World | Anne-Marie de Brouwer, Charlotte Ku, Renée Römkens, Larissa Van Den HerikThis edited volume will focus on developments in the prosecution of cases of sexual violence in (post-)conflict situations. The prosecution of those cases raises new and challenging questions as to how to build evidence, but also how to address victims’ concerns in that process. It will address innovations and challenges of empirical and other new kinds of social scientific, archival and medical data collection techniques; the development of evidence in relation to charges ranging from sexual violence as a war crime to genocide; and evidentiary and procedural differences and difficulties involved in prosecuting sexual victimization in domestic versus international courts.€92.00 incl. VAT -
International Law in Domestic Courts: Rule of Law Reform in Post-Conflict States
Book | 1st edition 2012 | World | Edda Kristjansdottir, André Nollkaemper, Cedric RyngaertThis volume examines in detail attempts that were made in certain significant post-conflict or post-authoritarian situations to strengthen the domestic rule of law with the aid of international law. Attention is paid in particular to the empowerment of domestic courts in such situations. International law may serve these courts as a tool for reconciling the demands for new rights and responsibilities with due process and other rule of law requirements.€90.00 incl. VAT -
Re-Member
Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Reconciliation of War-Affected ChildrenBook | 1st edition 2012 | World | Ilse Derluyn, Cindy Mels, Stephan Parmentier, Wouter VandenholeThe recruitment and operations of child soldiers have been hitting the headlines in politics and the media for many years. However, a much broader circle of children is affected by armed conflicts. Hence, the many challenges to deal with youth affected by armed conflict exceed by far the issue of the recruitment and demobilisation of child soldiers, but also extend to questions of rehabilitation, reintegration and reconciliation processes of all children and youths. This book brings together for the first time a wide range of leading scholars from three disciplinary perspectives (children’s rights, psychosocial studies and transitional justice) and aims at enhancing a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to the rehabilitation, reintegration and reconciliation processes of children and adolescents affected by armed conflict.€115.00 incl. VAT