Research Handbook on Transitional Justice

Edited by Cheryl Lawther, Reader in the School of Law and Luke Moffett, Reader in the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Contents:

Foreword xviii
1 Researching transitional justice: editors’ introduction 1
Cheryl Lawther and Luke Moffett

PART I THE CONCEPTS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
2 The time and space of transitional justice 10
Thomas Obel Hansen
3 Transitional justice: an interdisciplinary landscape? 27
Catherine Turner and Maja Davidović
4 Casual and causal links to the rule of law 45
Padraig McAuliffe
5 Transitional justice and ‘local’ justice 61
Dustin N Sharp
6 Transitional justice and gender 77
Catherine O’Rourke
7 Transitional justice and masculinities 95
Brandon Hamber, Philipp Schulz and Giulia Messmer
8 Transitional justice, denial and social control 111
Ron Dudai
9 Transitional justice and religion 126
Lavinia Stan

PART II THE ACTORS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
10 The United Nations and transitional justice: an enduring human rights
priority, remedy to securitization and path to sustainable peace 142
Megan Manion and Alison Davidian
11 Civil society and transitional justice: building an expanded vision from below 159
Maya Schkolne and Hugo van der Merwe
12 Transitional justice and constructing victims and victimhood 175
Cheryl Lawther
13 Witnessing and remembering mass rights violations: the possibilities
and conditions of becoming a witness 192
Benjamin Thorne

PART III THE MECHANISMS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
14 Transitional justice and international criminal justice 213
Brianne McGonigle Leyh
15 The contributions of international commissions of enquiry to
transitional justice 229
Catherine Harwood
16 Truth commissions 247
Adam Kochanski
17 Amnesties and transitional justice 263
Louise Mallinder
18 Reparations in transitional societies 284
Luke Moffett
19 Apologies in transitional justice 307
Kieran McEvoy and Anna Bryson
20 Transitional justice: vetting and lustration 325
Cynthia M Horne
21 Transitional justice and archives 342
Julia Viebach, Dagmar Hovestädt and Ulrike Lühe
22 Transitional justice and development 360
Peter Dixon

PART IV EXPANDING THE GAZE OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
23 Transitional justice and non-paradigmatic transitions 383
James Gallen
24 Transitional justice and colonialism 406
Hakeem Yusuf
25 Transitional justice for historical injustice 422
Colleen Murphy and Kelebogile Zvobgo
26 The psychosocial dimensions of transitional justice 436
Joanna R Quinn
27 Structural violence and transitional justice 452
Nevin T Aiken
28 Transitional justice (increasingly) meets counter-terrorism 473
Anne Charbord and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
29 Transitional justice for climate change: transformation through solidarity 491
Sonja Klinsky

Index