Research handbook on transitional justice / Cheryl Lawther and Luke Moffett, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawther, Cheryl, editor.

Moffett, Luke, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research Handbooks in International Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transitional justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (546 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"Providing a refreshing take on transitional justice, this thoroughly revised second edition brings together an expanse of scholarly expertise to reconsider how societies deal with gross human rights violations, structural injustices and mass violence. Contextualised by historical developments, it covers a diverse range of concepts, actors and mechanisms of transitional justice, while shedding light on the new and emerging areas in the field. Wholly engaging with the field's upward trajectory, this Handbook explores important new ground on existing issues of transitional justice, including masculinities, witnesses and the role of archives. This updated edition also engages with newly evolving areas of study, such as counter-terrorism, climate change, colonialism and non-paradigmatic transitions. With theoretical and empirical contributions from a rich array of world leading practitioners and scholars, this cutting-edge second edition Research Handbook is an invaluable academic resource for students and researchers of sociology, transitional justice, criminal law and human rights law. With expertly written chapters it also provides practitioners with a consolidated overview of the latest scholarship and analysis of legal and policy developments"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Tables

Contributors

Foreword

1. Researching transitional justice: editors' introduction

Part I The concepts of transitional justice

2. The time and space of transitional justice

3. Transitional justice: an interdisciplinary landscape?

4. Casual and causal links to the rule of law

5. Transitional justice and 'local' justice

6. Transitional justice and gender

7. Transitional justice and masculinities

8. Transitional justice, denial and social control

9. Transitional justice and religion

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

11. Civil society and transitional justice: building an expanded vision from below

12. Transitional justice and constructing victims and victimhood

13. Witnessing and remembering mass rights violations: the possibilities and conditions of a witness

Part III The mechanisms of transitional justice

14. Transitional justice and international criminal justice

15. The contributions of international commissions of inquiry to transitional justice

16. Truth commissions

17. Amnesties and transitional justice

18. Reparations in transitional societies

19. Apologies in transitional justice

20. Transitional justice: vetting and lustration

21. Transitional justice and archives

22. Transitional justice and development

Part IV Expanding the gaze of transitional justice

23. Transitional justice and non-paradigmatic transitions

24. Transitional justice and colonialism

25. Transitional justice for historical injustice

26. The psychosocial dimensions of transitional justice

27. Structural violence and transitional justice.

28. Transitional justice (increasingly) meets counter-terrorism

29. Transitional justice for climate change: transformation through solidarity

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80220-251-X