Case Studies: A Bibliography
Last Updated: January 2, 2009
Africa (general)
Bosire, Lydiah. "Overpromised, Underdelivered: Transitional Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa." New York: International Center for Transitional Justice, July 2006.Huyse, Luc and Mark Salter, eds. Reconciliation and Traditional Justice after Violent Conflict: Learning from African Experiences. Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2008.
Waddell, Nicholas and Phil Clark. Eds. Courting Conflict? Justice, Peace and the ICC in Africa. London: Royal African Society, March 2008.
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Balkans (general)
Akhavan, Payam. "Justice in the Hague, Peace in the Former Yugoslavia? A Commentary on the United National War Crimes Tribunal." Human Rights Quarterly 20, no. 4 (1998): 737-816.Doubt, Keith. Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo: Recovering Justice. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Weinstein, Harvey and Laurel Fletcher, et al. Justice, Accountability and Social Reconstruction: An Interview Study of Bosnian Judges and Prosecutors. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley Human Rights Center and Sarajevo: University of Sarajevo Centre for Human Rights, May 2002.
Niarchos, Catherine N. "Women, War, and Rape: Challenges facing the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia." Human Rights Quarterly 17, no. 4 (1995): 649-690.
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Cambodia
Chandler, David Porter. "Will there be a Trial for the Khmer Rouge?" Ethics and International Affairs 14 (2000): 67-82.Etcheson, Craig. Retribution and Reconciliation: Healing What Ails Cambodia. Washington DC: Report to USIP, 2002.
Chigas, George. "The Politics of Defining Justice after the Cambodian Genocide." Journal of Genocide Research 2, no. 2 (2000): 245-265.
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Chad
Brody, Reed. "The prosecution of Hissene Habre: International accountability, national impunity." In Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice, edited by Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Javier Mariezcurrena. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.[Back to Top]
East Timor
Burgess, Patrick. "A new approach to restorative justice - East Timor's Community Reconciliation Processes." In Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice, edited by Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Javier Mariezcurrena. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Reiger, Caitlin. "Hybrid attempts at accountability for serious crimes in Timor Leste." In Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice, edited by Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Javier Mariezcurrena. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Latin America (general)
Cabrera, Luisa. Efectos de la impunidad en el sentido de justicia. Psicología Política 23 (November 2001).Jelin, Elizabeth. State Repression and the Struggles for Memory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Sanford, Victoria. Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Zalaquett, Jose. Derechos Humanos y Limitaciones Politicas en las Transiciones Democraticas del Conosur. Santiago : Colección Estudios Cieplan, 1991.
Zalaquett, Jose. "Moral Reconstruction in the Wake of War Crimes." In Hard Choices, edited by Jonathan Moore. Boston: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
Zalaquett, Jose. "Truth, Justice and Reconciliation: Lessons for the International Community." In Comparative Peace Processes In Latin America edited by Cynthia J. Arnson. Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Zalaquett, Jose, ed.Victims Unsilenced: The Inter-American Human Rights System and Transitional Justice in Latin America. Washington, DC: Due Process of Law Foundation, 2007.
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Liberia
Campbell-Nelson, Karen. "Liberia is not Just a Man Thing: Transitional Justice Lessons for Women, Peace and Security." Brussels: Initiative for Peacebuilding, 2008.Gberie, Lansana. "Truth and Justice on Trial in Liberia." African Affairs 107 (2008): 455-465.
Hayner, Priscilla. Negotiating Peace in Liberia: Preserving the Possibility for Justice. Geneva: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, November 2007.
Sleh, Aaron, Samuel Toe, and Aaron Weah. Impunity under Attack: The Evolution and Imperative of the Liberian Truth Commission. Silver Spring, Maryland: Image Group Press, 2008.
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Northern Uganda
Allen, Tim. Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lords Resistance Army. London: Zed Books, 2006.Baines, Erin K. The Haunting of Alice: Local Approaches to Justice and Reconciliation in Northern Uganda. International Journal of Transitional Justice 1, no. 1 (2007): 91-114.
Hovil, Lucy and Joanna R. Quinn. Peace First, Justice Later: Traditional Justice in Northern Uganda. Kampala, Uganda: Refugee Law Project (RLP), July 2005.
Okello, Moses Chrispus and Lucy Hovil. "Confronting the Reality of Gender-based Violence in Northern Uganda." International Journal of Transitional Justice 1, no. 3 (2007): 433-443.
"Partial Justice: Formal and Informal Justice Mechanisms in Post Conflict West Nile." Refugee Law Project Working Paper No. 21. Kampala, Uganda: Refugee Law Project, May 2007.
Stavrou, Aki and Angela Veale. "Violence, Reconciliation and Identity the Reintegration of Lords Resistance Army Child Abductees in Northern Uganda." Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, 2003.
"Whose Justice? Perceptions of Ugandas Amnesty Act 2000: The Potential for Conflict Resolution and Long-Term Reconciliation." Refugee Law Project Working Paper No. 15. Kampala, Uganda: Refugee Law Project, February 2005.
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Peru
Cueva, Eduardo Gonzalez. "The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the challenge of impunity." In Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice, edited by Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Javier Mariezcurrena. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Laplante, Lisa J. and Kimberly Theidon. "Truth with Consequences: Justice and Reparations in Post-war Peru." Human Rights Quarterly 20 (2007): 228-250.
Theidon, Kimberly. "The Micropolitics of Reconciliation in Postwar Peru." Journal of Conflict Resolution 50, no. 3 (June 2006): 433-457.
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Rwanda
Daly, Erin. "Between Punitive and Reconstructive Justice: The Gacaca Courts in Rwanda." New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 34, no. 2 (2002): 355-96.Honeyman, Catherine. Gacaca Jurisdictions: Transitional Justice in Rwanda. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Le Mon, Christopher J. "Rwanda's Troubled Gacaca Courts." American University Washington College of Law, Human Rights Brief 14, no. 2 (Winter 2007): 16-20.
Longman, Timothy. "Justice at the grassroots? Gacaca trials in Rwanda." In Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice, edited by Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Javier Mariezcurrena. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Oomen, Barbara. "Donor-Driven Justice and its Discontents: The Case of Rwanda." Development and Change 36, no. 5 (2005): 887-910.
Uvin, Peter. "The Gacaca Tribunals in Rwanda." In Reconciliation after Violent Conflict: A Handbook, edited by Teresa Barnes, David Bloomfield, and Luc Hyuse. Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), 2003.
Uvin, Peter and Charles Mironko. "Western and Local Approaches to Justice in Rwanda." Global Governance 9, no. 2 (2003): 219-231.
Wells, Sarah. "Gender, Sexual Violence and Prospects for Justice at the Gacaca Courts in Rwanda." Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 14, no. 2 (2005): 167-96.
Zorbas, Eugenia. "Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda." African Journal of Legal Studies 1, no. 1 (2004): 29-52.
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Sierra Leone
Horovitz, Sigall. "Transitional criminal justice in Sierra Leone." In Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice, edited by Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Javier Mariezcurrena. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Kelsall, Tim. "Truth, Lies, Ritual: Preliminary Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone," Human Rights Quarterly 27, no. 2 (2005):
Nowrojee, Binaifer. "Making the Invisible War Crime Visible: Post Conflict Justice for Sierra Leone's Rape Victims." Harvard Human Rights Journal 18 (Spring 2005).
Schabas, William A. "The Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission." In Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice, edited by Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Javier Mariezcurrena. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Shaw, Rosalind. "Memory Frictions: Localizing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone." International Journal of Transitional Justice 1 (2007): 183-207.
Shaw, Rosalind. "Rethinking Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Lessons from Sierra Leone." United States Institute of Peace, Special Report No. 130, February 2005.
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South Africa
Boraine, Alex. A Country Unmasked: Inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.Doxtader, Erik and Charles Villa-Vincencio, eds. To Repair the Irreparable: Reparation and Reconstruction in South Africa. Cape Town: David Philip, 2004.
Gibson, James L. "Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Heal a Divided Nation?" Politikon 31, no. 2 (November 2004): 129-155.
Posel, Deborah and Graeme Simpson, eds. Commissioning the past: Understanding South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2003.
Ross, Fiona. Bearing Witness: Women and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. London: Pluto Press, 2002
Sarkin, Jeremy. Carrots and Sticks: The TRC and the South African Amnesty Process. Antwerp: Intersentia, 2004.
van der Merwe, Hugo, Polly Dewhirst, and Brandon Hamber. "Non-governmental Organisations and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: An Impact Assessment." Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies 26, no. 1 (1999): 55-79.
Villa-Vicencio, Charles and Wilhelm Verwoerd, eds. Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa. London: Zed Books, 2000.
Wilson. Richard A. The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
