Bibliography: General
Last Updated: March 17, 2009
Academic resources
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Kaufman, Stuart J. Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001.
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Lundy, Patricia, and Mark McGovern. "Whose Justice? Rethinking Transitional Justice from the Bottom Up." Journal of Law and Society 35, no. 2 (June 2008): 265-292.
Mallinder, Louise. Amnesty, Human Rights and Political Transitions: Bridging the Peace and Justice Divide. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008.
Mallinder, Louise. "Can Amnesties and International Justice be Reconciled?" International Journal of Transitional Justice 1, no. 2 (July 2007): 208-230.
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Olson, Laura M. "Provoking the Dragon on the Patio - Matters of Transitional Justice: Penal Repression vs. Amnesties." International Review of the Red Cross 88, no 862 (June 2006).
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Phelps, Teresa Godwin. Shattered Voices: Language, Violence and the Work of Truth Commissions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
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Pouligny, Beatrice. "The Forgotten Dimensions of Transitional Justice Mechanisms: Cultural Meanings and Imperatives for Survivors of Violent Conflicts." Paper presented at the Global Justice, Local Legitimacy International Conference, University of Amsterdam, January 2005.
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Quinn, Joanna R. "Chicken and Egg? Sequencing in Transitional Justice: The Case of Uganda." Working paper. Accessed through the Network of Transitional Justice Researchers.
Randall, Lawrence and Cosme R. Pulano, "Transitional Justice Reporting Audit: Review of Media Coverage of the Truth and Reconciliation Process in Liberia," The Liberia Media Center (LMC), 2008.
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Sriram, Chandra Lekha and Amy Ross. "Geographies of Crime and Justice: Contemporary Transitional Justice and the Creation of Zones of Impunity." International Journal of Transitional Justice 1, no. 1 (March 2007): 45-65.
Sriram, Chandra Lekha. "Justice as Peace: Liberal Peacebuilding and Strategies of Transitional Justice." Global Society 21, no. 4 (October 2007): 579 - 591.
Sriram, Chandra Lekha. Globalizing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Revolution in Accountability. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Sriram, Chandra Lekha. Confronting Past Human Rights Violations: Justice vs. Peace in Times of Transition. New York, NY: Frank Cass, 2002.
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Stover, Eric. The Witnesses. War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague. Univesity of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Stover, Eric and Harvey M. Weinstein. My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Teitel, Ruti. "Editorial Note - Transitional Justice Globalized." International Journal of Transitional Justice 2, no. 1 (2008): 1-4.
Teitel, Ruti G. Transitional Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Teitel, Ruti G. "Transitional Justice Genealogy." Harvard Human Rights Journal 16 (2003): 69-94.
Torpey, John C. Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparation Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Transitional Justice and Development. Special Issue. International Journal of Transitional Justice 2, no. 3 (December 2008).
van der Merwe, Hugo, Victoria Baxter and Audrey Chapman, ed. (Eds.). Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice: Challenges for Empirical Research. Washington DC: USIP Press Books, 2009.
Van Zyl, Paul. "Promoting Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies." In Security Governance in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, eds. Alan Bryden and Heiner Hänggi, 209-232. Geneva: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), 2005.
Villa-Vicencio, Charles and Erik Doxtader, eds. The Provocations of Amnesty: Memory, Justice and Impunity. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003.
Vinjamuri, Leslie and Jack Snyder. "Advocacy and Scholarship in the Study of International War Crime Tribunals and Transitional Justice." Annual Review of Political Science 7(2004): 345-62.
Waldorf, Lars. "Mass Justice for Mass Atrocity: Rethinking Local Justice as Transitional Justice." Temple Law Review 79, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 1-87.
Zartman, William and Victor A. Kremenyuk, eds. Peace versus Justice: Negotiating Forward and Backward-Looking Outcomes. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
Zehr, Howard. The Little Book of Restorative Justice. Intercourse, PA: Good Books, 2002.
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News and reports
IRIN In-Depth, Justice for a Lawless World? Rights and reconciliation in a new era of international law. July 2006.Keeley, Graham. "A painful past uncovered." The Guardian, August 21, 2008.
MacFarquhar, Neil. "In Morocco, a Rights Movement, at the King's Pace." The New York Times, October 1, 2005.
Nolen, Stephanie. "Africa's unjust deserts." Globe and Mail, June 14, 2008.
Snyder, Jack and Leslie Vinjamuri. "A midwife for peace." International Herald Tribune, September 26, 2006.
Timberg, Craig. "Sierra Leone Special Court's Narrow Focus." The Washington Post, March 26, 2008.
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Policy analysis and practitioner documents
Alexander, Jane. A Scoping Study of Transitional Justice and Poverty Reduction. London: UK Department for International Development (DFID), January 2003.Anderlini, Sanam Naraghi, Camille Pampell Conway and Lisa Kays. "Transitional Justice and Reconciliation." In Inclusive Security, Sustainable Peace: A Toolkit for Advocacy and Action. Hunt Alternatives Fund, 2007.
Barsalou, Judy. "Trauma and Transitional Justice in Divided Societies." United States Institute of Peace, Special Report 135, April 2005.
Barsalou, Judy and Victoria Baxter. "The Urge to Remember: The Role of Memorials in Social Reconstruction and Transitional Justice." United States Institute of Peace, Stabilization and Reconstruction Series No. 5, January 2007.
Berns, Jessica and Abdul Wahab Musab. "Reflection: What We Have Learned from Working together at the Intersection of Transitional Justice and Coexistence." Transitional Justice Monitor 1, no. 2 (July 2008).
Bloomfield, David, Teresa Barnes, and Luc Huyse. Reconciliation after Violent Conflict: A Handbook. Stockholm, Sweden: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), 2003.
Cobban, Helena. "Think Again: International Courts." Foreign Policy, 8 May 2006.
Crawford, Julia. Reporting Transitional Justice: A Handbook for Journalists. BBC World Services Trust and International Center for Transitional Justice, 2007.
Human Rights Watch. Narrowing the Impunity Gap: Trials before Bosnias War Crimes Chamber. February 2007.
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.
International Refugee Rights Initiative. International Justice in Africa: Prospects and Challenges. Report on Workshop Proceedings, 17 July 2008.
Katshung Joseph, Yav. "Truth Commissions and Prosecutions: Two Sides of the Same Coin?" Global Policy Forum, March 17, 2008.
Lie, Tove Grete, Helga Malmin Binningsbo, and Scott Gates. "Post-Conflict Justice and Sustainable Peace." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4191, April 2007.
Magarrell, Lisa. "Reparations in Theory and Practice." New York: International Center on Transitional Justice (ICTJ), 2007.
Mobekk, Eirin. Transitional Justice and Security Sector Reform: Enabling Sustainable Peace. Occasional Paper No. 13. Geneva: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, November 2006.
Mobekk, Eirin. "Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies--Approaches to Reconciliation." In After Intervention: Public Security Management in Post-Conflict Societies: From Intervention to Sustainable Local Ownership, edited by Anja H. Ebnother and Philipp H. Fluri. Vienna and Geneva: PfP Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes, 2005.
Mokhiber, Craig. Local Perspectives: Foreign Aid to the Justice Sector, Geneva: International Council on Human Rights Policy, 2000
New Tactics in Human Rights. "Featured Dialogue: Truth and Reconciliation Processes: Aiding Community Healing through Addressing Impunity." March 26-April 1, 2008.
Nuremberg Declaration on Peace and Justice. Building a Future on Peace and Justice, International Conference. Nuremberg, Germany, June 25-27, 2008.
Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights(OHCHR). Rule of Law Tools for Post-Conflict States: Prosecution Initiatives. New York and Geneva: United Nations, 2006.
Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights(OHCHR). Rule of Law Tools for Post-Conflict States: Truth Commissions. New York and Geneva: United Nations, 2006.
Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights(OHCHR). Rule of Law Tools for Post-Conflict States: Vetting, an operational framework. New York and Geneva: United Nations, 2006.
Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights(OHCHR). Rule of Law Tools for Post-Conflict States: Reparation Programmes. New York and Geneva: United Nations, 2006
Pavon, Beatriz. "Combating Impunity: Transitional Justice in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocities." UN Chronicle XLI, no. 3 (2004).
Peuraca, Branka. "Can Faith-Based NGOs Advance Faith-Based Reconciliation? The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina." U.S. Institute for Peace: Special Report No. 103, March 2003.
Reddy, Paavani. "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Instruments for Ending Impunity and Building Lasting Peace." UN Chronicle XLI, no. 2 (2004).
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Entered into force 1 July 2002.
Samset, Ingrid, Stina Petersen, and Vibeke Wang. Maintaining the Process: Aid to Transitional Justice in Rwanda and Guatemala, 1995-2005. Working Group on Development and Peace (FriEnt), November 2007.
Sisson, Jonathan. Ed. Dealing with the Past in Post-Conflict Societies: Ten Years after the Peace Accords in Guatemala and Bosnia-Herzegovina. SwissPeace Foundation, Conference Paper, September 2007.
Tepperman, Jonathan D. "Truth and Consequences." Foreign Affairs 81, no. 2 (March/April 2002).
Thoms, Oskar N.T., James Ron, and Roland Paris. The Effects of Transitional Justice Mechanisms: A Summary of Empirical Research Findings and Implications for Analysts and Practitioners. University of Ottawa, Canada: Centre for International Policy Studies, April 2008.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Programming for Justice: Access for All, A practitioners guide to a human rights-based approach to access to justice. Bangkok, Thailand: UNDP Regional Centre, 2005.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Vetting Public Employees in Post-Conflict Settings: Operational Guidelines. New York: UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, 2006.
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UN Official Documents
United Nations. Updated set of principles for the protection and promotion of human rights through action to combat impunity. Commission on Human Rights. E/CN.4/2005/102/Add.1, 8 February 2005.
United Nations Security Council. The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post-conflict Societies. Report of the Secretary General, S/2004/616. 23 August 2004.
UN General Assembly. Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law. A/RES/60/147. 21 March 2006.
UN Secretary-General. UN Approach to Justice for Children. Guidance Note of the Secretary-General, NY: United Nations, September 2008.
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Websites
United Nations agencies
OHCHR (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) - BCPR (Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery)-Transitional Justice
UN Human Rights Council
International, "Hybrid," & National Criminal Courts and Tribunals
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)International Criminal Court (ICC)
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
Special Court for Sierra Leone
Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (War Crimes Chamber)
Truth & Reconciliation Commissions (including reports)
Chile-Report of the National Commission on Truth and ReconciliationGuatemala: Memory of Silence - Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification (CEH)
El Salvador - From Madness to Hope: the 12-Year war in El Salvador: Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador
Liberia - Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia
Morocco- Moroccan Justice and Reconciliation Commission
Peru Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Peru Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Final Report)
South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Sierra Leone - The Final Report of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Timor-Leste Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR)
International NGOs, Research Centers, and Networks
African Transitional Justice Research Network (ATJRN)Case Western Reserve University - Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
War Crimes Research Portal
Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
Coalition for the International Criminal Court
Eastern Mennonite University - Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP)
Global Justice Center
Harvard University-Project for Justice in Times of Transition
International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
International IDEA - Traditional Justice and Reconciliation Project
International Internet Bibliography on Transitional Justice
Institute of Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) (Cape Town, South Africa)
Justice in Perspective: Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation in Transition
New York University - Program on Transitional Justice
Notre Dame School of Law - Transitional Justice Project (TJP)
Peace, Conflict and Coexistence Studies - Brandeis University
Political Apologies and Reparations
Project on International Courts and Tribunals
REDRESS - Seeking Reparation for Torture Survivors
African International Courts and Tribunals
Restorative Justice Online
Strategic Choices in the Design of Truth Commissions
Track Impunity Always (TRIAL)
Transitional Justice Forum (TJF)
University of California Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center (WCSC)
University of Sarajevo-Institute for Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law
University of Ulster - Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Transitional Justice Data Base Project
USIP Truth Commissions Digital Collection
For further resources on transitional justice, go to the Transitional Justice Data Base Project (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Transitional Justice Data Base Project provides the most comprehensive online bibliography on transitional justice. In addition, the website provides teaching resources on transitional justice for undergrad and graduate studies, as well as extensive links to TJ resources and centers, official websites of trials and truth commissions, and international and regional courts.
