Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice

Since the 1980s, an array of legal and non-legal practices—labeled Transitional Justice —has been developed to support post-repressive, post-authoritarian, and post-conflict societies in dealing with their traumatic past. In Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice , the contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms and look at how genocide, mass political violence, and historical injustices are being institutionally addressed. The