Research Handbook on Transitional Justice

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

‘Lawther and Moffett’s volume comprehensively captures the field of transitional justice at a critical moment, when many are questioning its applicability to current post-conflict challenges around the world. By focusing on the major concepts, actors and mechanisms of transitional justice, this collection traces the field's evolution over the last 30 years and where it is likely to go from here. This is an indispensable resource for anyone trying to get to grips with this vast and constantly changing arena of scholarship and practice.’

• Contents:Foreword xviii1 Researching transitional justice: editors’ introduction 1Cheryl Lawther and Luke MoffettPART I THE CONCEPTS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE2 The time and space of transitional justice 10Thomas Obel Hansen3 Transitional justice: an interdisciplinary landscape? 27Catherine Turner and Maja Davidović4 Casual and causal links to the rule of law 45Padraig McAuliffe5 Transitional justice and ‘local’ justice 61Dustin N Sharp6 Transitional justice and gender 77Catherine O’Rourke7 Transitional justice and masculinities 95Brandon Hamber, Philipp Schulz and Giulia Messmer8 Transitional justice, denial and social control 111Ron Dudai9 Transitional justice and religion 126Lavinia StanPART II THE ACTORS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE10 The United Nations and transitional justice: an enduring human rightspriority, remedy to securitization and path to sustainable peace 142Megan Manion and Alison Davidian11 Civil society and transitional justice: building an expanded vision from below 159Maya Schkolne and Hugo van der Merwe12 Transitional justice and constructing victims and victimhood 175Cheryl Lawther13 Witnessing and remembering mass rights violations: the possibilitiesand conditions of becoming a witness 192Benjamin ThornePART III THE MECHANISMS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE14 Transitional justice and international criminal justice 213Brianne McGonigle Leyh15 The contributions of international commissions of enquiry totransitional justice 229Catherine Harwood16 Truth commissions 247Adam Kochanski17 Amnesties and transitional justice 263Louise Mallinder18 Reparations in transitional societies 284Luke Moffett19 Apologies in transitional justice 307Kieran McEvoy and Anna Bryson20 Transitional justice: vetting and lustration 325Cynthia M Horne21 Transitional justice and archives 342Julia Viebach, Dagmar Hovestädt and Ulrike Lühe22 Transitional justice and development 360Peter DixonPART IV EXPANDING THE GAZE OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE23 Transitional justice and non-paradigmatic transitions 383James Gallen24 Transitional justice and colonialism 406Hakeem Yusuf25 Transitional justice for historical injustice 422Colleen Murphy and Kelebogile Zvobgo26 The psychosocial dimensions of transitional justice 436Joanna R Quinn27 Structural violence and transitional justice 452Nevin T Aiken28 Transitional justice (increasingly) meets counter-terrorism 473Anne Charbord and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin29 Transitional justice for climate change: transformation through solidarity 491Sonja KlinskyIndex