Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice

NANCI ADLER is professor of memory, history, and transitional justice at the University of Amsterdam and program director of genocide studies at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). She is the author of numerous titles, including Keeping Faith with the Party: Communist Believers Return from the Gulag.

"Bringing together some of the most notable voices in the field, this volume moves away from the often narrow focus of other treatments of transitional justice-situating and evaluating the effect of accountability mechanisms within a larger social, cultural, and political context." - Ronald Slye (coauthor of International Criminal Law and Its Enforcement) “This rich and interesting volume goes beyond the legal understanding of Transitional Justice in order to address the challenge of post-conflict societies. A valuable and important contribution to the current literature.” - Elazar Barkan (Columbia University) "Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub (Chronicle of Higher Education) "With an extraordinary and impressively informative body of seminal scholarship by experts in the subject of transitional justice that is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, social activists, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice is also available in a paperback edition and in a digital book format." (Midwest Book Review)

• Introduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional JusticeNanci AdlerPart I: Truth and JusticeChapter 1: Swinging the Pendulum: Fin de SiÈcle Historians in the CourtsVladimir PetrovićChapter 2: Time, Justice and Human Rights: Statutory Limitation on the Right to Truth?William A. SchabasChapter 3: How Truth Recovery Can Benefit from a Conditional AmnestyJeremy SarkinChapter 4: New Epistemologies for Confronting International Crimes: Developing the IDP Approach to Transitional JusticeStephan Parmentier, Mina Rauschenbach, and Maarten van CraenPart II: The Trial RecordChapter 5: The Spark for Genocide? Propaganda and Historical Narratives at International Criminal TribunalsRichard Ashby WilsonChapter 6: The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical SourceThijs B. BouwknegtPart III: The Afterlife of Transitional Justice ProcessesChapter 7: Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-up Reflections on a Post-Colonial Setting – The Rawagede CaseNicole L. ImmlerChapter 8: Collective and Competitive Victimhood as Identity in the Former YugoslaviaChristian Axboe NielsenChapter 9: Perpetrator-Victims: How Universal Victimhood in Cambodia Impacts Transitional Justice MeasuresTimothy WilliamsChapter 10: Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in BangladeshKjell AndersonAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIndex