Ethiopian Red Terror Trials

KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes University College, Director of Oslo Analytica policy research and advisory company, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo. His books include, with Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea (2017). CHARLES SCHAEFER is Senior Research Professor of History at Valparaiso University, Indiana. Additionally, he taught in the Department of History at Addis Ababa University. He has written many articles on Ethiopia and co-edited The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged (James Currey, 2009). GIRMACHEW ALEMU ANEME is a Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. Bahru Zewde is Emeritus Professor of History at Addis Ababa University and founding Fellow and Vice President of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. He has authored many books and articles, notably A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974, Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century and The Quest for Socialist Utopia, finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize, 2015. CHARLES SCHAEFER is Senior Research Professor of History at Valparaiso University, Indiana. Additionally, he taught in the Department of History at Addis Ababa University. He has written many articles on Ethiopia and co-edited The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged (James Currey, 2009). GIRMACHEW ALEMU ANEME is a Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Bjørknes University College, Director of Oslo Analytica policy research and advisory company, and a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oslo. His books include, with Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea (2017).

A major contribution to the paltry transitional justice literature.

• PrefaceThe Red Terror trials: the context of transitional justice in Ethiopia - Kjetil Tronvoll and Charles Schaefer and Girmachew Alemu AnemeThe history of the Red Terror: contexts & consequences - Bahru ZewdeThe rights of the accused: a human rights appraisal - Frode Elsegem and Girmachew Alemu AnemeThe role of the Special Prosecutor's Office - Sarah VaughanThe Red Terror trials versus traditions of restorative justice in Ethiopia - Charles SchaeferA quest for justice or the construction of political legitimacy?: The political anatomy of the Red Terror trials - Kjetil TronvollBuilding state & nation: justice, reconciliation & democratization in Ethiopia & South Africa - Elsa Van HuyssteenBeyond the Red Terror trials: analysing guarantees of non-repetition - Girmachew Alemu AnemeConcluding the main Red Terror trial: Special Prosecutor v. Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam et al. - Kjetil TronvollConcluding the main Red Terror trial: Special Prosecutor v. Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam et al. - Charles SchaeferConcluding the main Red Terror trial: Special Prosecutor v. Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam et al. - Girmachew Alemu Aneme