Theorizing transitional justice

With the common goal of clarifying some of the theoretical profiles of transitional justice strategies, the study is organized along crucial intersections evaluating aspects connected to the genealogy, the nature, the scope and the most appropriate methodology for the study of transitional justice. The specific transitional instruments of war crime tribunals, truth commissions, administrative purges, reparations, and historical commissions are considered. The book brings together some of the most original writings from established experts as well as from promising young scholars in the field.

Part I: Is it Always Necessary to Account For Past Wrongs? -- 1. Forgetting after War: A Qualified Defense -- 2. Peace without the Past? Truth, Transition and the Northern Ireland Case -- Part II: Punishing after War -- 3. The Force of Forgetting or Forced Forgetting? Schmittian Amnesties and Transitional Justice -- 4. Transitional Justice, Retributive Justice and Accountability for Wrongdoing -- Part III: Transitional Justice as a Vehicle of Structural and Institutional Change -- 5. Transitional Justice as Structural Justice -- 6. Justice-Seeking in Settler States: A Model for Thinking about 'Justice' in Transitional Societies -- 7. Structural Causes of Conflict and the Superficiality of Transition -- Part IV: Transitional Justice and Political Reconciliation -- 8. Reconcilable Resentments? Jean Amery's Critique of Forgiveness in the Aftermath of Atrocity -- 9. A Theory of National Reconciliation: Some Insights from Africa -- 10. Restoring Human Capability: Reconciliation and Liberal Multiculturalism -- Part V: Transitional Justice and the Arts -- 11. Transitional Justice and the Arts: Reflections on the Field -- 12. Democratic 'Sacred Spaces': Public Architecture and Transitiona…