Transitional Justice: Contending with the Past

* Contents * Acknowledgements * Preface * Chapter One Introducing Transitional Justice * Origins and Development * Defining and Conceptualising Transitional Justice * Chapter Two Mechanisms and Approaches * Introduction * Prosecutions and Trials * Purges, Vetting and Lustration * Amnesties * Truth Commissions * Reparations and Redress * a) Material Reparations * b) Symbolic Reparations * Traditional Informal Justice * Concluding Remark * Chapter Three Does it Work? Evaluating Transitional Justice * Empirical Evaluations of the Impact of TJ * Truth Commissions * International and 'Internationalised' Criminal Justice * Concluding Remarks * Chapter Four Specific Perspectives on Transitional Justice * Victim Perspectives * Feminist and Gendered Perspectives * Concluding Remarks * Chapter Five Transitional Justice Today and Tomorrow * Debates and Critiques * New Challenges * a) The Cultural Sphere * b) Climate Change and the Environment * c) Transitional Justice in Established Liberal- Democracies * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography * Index