Current Issues in Transitional Justice

This volumeis an inter-disciplinary scholarly resource bringing together contributions fromwriters, experienced academics and practitioners working in fields such as human rights, humanitarian law, public policy, psychology, cultural and peace studies, and earth jurisprudence. This collection of essays presents the most up to date knowledge and status of the field of transitional justice,and also highlights the emerging debates in this area, which are often overseen and underdeveloped in the literature. Thevolume provides a wide coverage of the arguments relating to controversial issues emanating from different regions of the world. The bookis divided into four partswhich groups different aspects of the problems and issues facing transitional justice as a field, and its processes and mechanisms more specifically. Part Iconcentrates on the traditional means and methods of dealing with past gross abuses of powerand political violence. In this section,the authors also expand and often challenge the ways that these processes and mechanisms are conceptualised and introduced. PartII provides a forum for the contributors to share their first hand experiences of how traditional and customary mechanisms of achieving justice can be effectivelyutilised. PartIII includes a collection of essays which challenges existing transitional justice models andprovides new lenses to examine the formal and traditional processes and mechanisms. It aims to expose insufficiencies and some of the inherent practical and jurisprudential problems facing the field. Finally, Part IV, looks to the future by examining what remedies can be available today for abuses of rights of the future generations and those who have no standing to claim their rights, such as the environment.