Includes bibliographical references.

Transitional justice and the just war tradition / Larry May -- Transitional justice as retribution : revisiting its Kantian roots / Shaina P. Wang -- A discourse theoretic approach to transitional justice ideals : conceptualising "reconciliation" as an empty universal in times of political transition / Judith Renner -- Transitions as states of exception : towards a more general theory of transitional justice / Derk Venema -- Commentary on critiquing core transitional justice concepts / Max Pensky -- Human rights, international courts and deliberative democracy / Roberto Gargarella -- Accountability after atrocity in Peru : the trial of former President Alberto Fujimori in comparative perspective / Jo-Marie Burt -- Hybrid human rights mechanisms in post-conflict transitions : the experience of the Bosnian Human Rights Chamber / Antoine Buyse -- International sentencing as a force for achieving peace through justice / Ralph Henham -- Can international justice be restorative justice? : The role of reparations / Carolyn Hoyle -- Commentary on accountability, human rights and the rule of law / Par Engstrom -- Legitimacy, power and memory at the Extraordinary Chambers in the courts of Cambodia / Peter Manning -- Outreach, inreach and civil society participation in transitional justice / Wendy Lambourne -- "Blow your mind and cool your heart" : can tradition-based justice fill the transitional justice gap in Sierra Leone? / Martien Schotsmans -- The elusive quest for reconciliation in Northern Uganda / Dean E. Peachey -- Commentary on locality and legitimacy / Kieran McEvoy -- "Lebanon of dignity, a people that perseveres" : a psychological perspective on collective amnesia in Lebanon and its implications for transitional justice / Diana Batchelor -- Performing reconciliation : a performance approach to the analysis of political apologies / Michel-André Horelt -- Self-inflicted genocide and state- and nation-building in post-Soviet Russia / Danielle Granville -- Commentary on memory, ritual and apology / Julia Paulson -- The end of impunity? : "Late justice" and post-transitional prosecutions in Latin America / Cath Collins -- Transitional justice in post-communist Central-Eastern Europe : decommunisation and the rule of law / Adam Czarnota -- Prosecutions, pardons and amnest : the trajectory of transitional accountability in South Africa / Hugo van der Merwe -- Post-conflict accountability and the demands of justice : can conditional amnesties take the place of criminal prosecutions? / Antje du Bois-Pedain -- Commentary on transitional justice after transition / Marjorie D. Jobson.