1st Edition

Transitional Justice Theories, Mechanisms and Debates

Edited By Hakeem O. Yusuf, Hugo van der Merwe Copyright 2022
326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

Transitional justice is the way societies that have experienced civil conflict or authoritarian rule and widespread violations of human rights deal with the experience. With its roots in law, transitional justice as an area of study crosses various fields in the social sciences. This book is written with this multi- and inter-disciplinary dynamic of the field in mind. The book presents the... Read more

Chapter 1- Origin, Context and Development of Transitional Justice

Chapter 2 - Victims, Victimology and Transitional Justice

Chapter 3- Peace versus Justice and Rule of Law Debates in Transitions

Chapter 4- Prosecutions for Abuses and Gross Violations of Human Rights

Chapter 5- Truth Commissions

Chapter 6- Lustration and the Personnel Reform of the State

Chapter 7- Reparations

Chapter 8- Transitional Justice and Local Justice

Chapter 9: The Case for Judicial Accountability in Transitional Societies

Chapter 10- Gender and Transitional Justice

Chapter 11- Political Economy and Transitional Justice

Chapter 12- Apology, Reconciliation, and the Politics of Memory

Chapter 13: ‘Measuring’ Transitional Justice: Impacts and Outcomes

Biography

Hakeem O. Yusuf is Professor in Global Law and Head of the Law School, Faculty of Business and Law, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Hugo van der Merwe is the Director of Research, Knowledge and Learning at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), South Africa, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice.