Understanding Transitional Justice

Giada Girelli holds a Law Degree obtained Summa cum Laude by the Università degli Studi di Torino. After a semester at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies, she attended an L.L.M in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice at SOAS (University of London). Here, she carried out clinical research on childhood and access to justice, further developing a strong interest in the intersections among law, history and justice.

1. Introduction: Building Justice in the Wake of Atrocities.- 2. A Fight for Inclusion: The Transforming Role of Victims in Transitional Justice Processes.- 3. Truth: Chasing an Illusion?.- 4. Reconciliation: A Journey "From Madness to Hope".- 5. Amnesties: Juggling Tensions within the Transitional Justice Discourse.- 6. The Origins of International Criminal Accountability: The Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals.- 7. International Criminal Justice Revisited: The Ad-Hoc Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.- 8. The Hybrid Experiment: Assessing the Special Court for Sierra Leone.- 9. Healing a Wounded Nation: The Reconciliatory Paradigm of Truth Commissions.- 10. Adapting the Perspective: The Role of Bottom-Up Initiatives.- 11. "No Hay Paz Sin Trabajo": Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives in the Struggle for a More Meaningful Justice.- 12. Conclusions: Justice beyond Rhetoric.