Research Handbook on Transitional Justice

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

Contents:

Foreword
William Schabas

Introduction – Researching Transitional Justice: The Highs, the Lows and the Expansion of the Field
Cheryl Lawther and Luke Moffett

Part I: The Concept(s) of Transitional Justice
1. The Development of Transitional Justice
Joanna R. Quinn

2. The Time and Space of Transitional Justice
Thomas Obel Hansen

3. Transitional Justice and Critique
Catherine Turner

4. Transitional Justice’s Impact on Rule of Law: Symbol or Substance?
Padraig McAuliffe

5. Transitional Justice and Human Rights
Frédeéric Mégret and Raphael Vagliano

6. Transitional Justice and Gender
Catherine O’Rourke

7. Transitional Justice and ‘Local’ Justice
Dustin N. Sharp

8. Transitional Justice and Development 
Peter J. Dixon

Part II: The Actors of Transitional Justice
9. The United Nations and Transitional Justice
Alison Davidian and Emily Kenney

10. The Role of International NGOs in the Emergence of Transitional Justice: A case study of the International Center for Transitional Justice
Sara Dezalay

11. The Role of Local Civil Society in Transitional Justice
Hugo van der Merwe and Maya Schkolne

12. Transitional Justice and the ‘Plight’ of Victimhood
Laurel E. Fletcher and Harvey M. Weinstein

13. Art and Transitional Justice: The 'Infinite Incompleteness' of Transition
Andrea Breslin

14. Media and Transitional Justice: A Dream of Symbiosis in a Troubled Relationship
Refik Hodzic and David Tolbert

Part III: The Mechanisms of Transitional Justice
15. The International Criminal Court: In the Interests of Transitional Justice?
James Gallen

16. Transitional Justice and the End of Impunity: Hybrid tribunals
Aaron Fichtelberg

17. Transitional Justice and Truth Commissions
Cheryl Lawther

18. Transitional Justice and Amnesties
Tom Hadden

19. Transitional Justice and Reparations: Remedying the Past?
Luke Moffett

20. Contributions of International Commissions of Inquiry to Transitional Justice
Catherine Harwood

21. Transitional Justice: Vetting and Lustration
Cynthia M. Horne

Part IV: The Practice of Transitional Justice
22. Guatemala: Lessons for Transitional Justice
Naomi Roht-Arriaza

23. Pursuing Retributive and Reparative Justice within Cambodia
Rachel Killean

24. Transitional Justice and the Case of Palestine
Brendan Ciarán Browne

25. Transitional Justice in Central and Eastern Europe
Lavinia Stan

Index