Transitional Justice: Legacies and Futures (Routledge Socio-Legal Frontiers of Transitional Justice)

This volume explores the futures of transitional justice by presenting its multiple pasts and presents across nearly half a century.It canvasses the legacies of achievements and failures, of high hopes and expectations, and equally of disappointment and disillusion across a range of institutions, including the International Criminal Court, global regions and local settings.The authors critically assess a range of different transitional justice mechanisms including prosecutions, reparations, truth-seeking, and institutional reform, as well as individual and public apologies for grave breaches of human rights.Their focus on local conditions foregrounds actors and networks, politics and the political in transitional justice processes.The book presents evidence, critical facts and analyses through a multidisciplinary lens, featuring criminologists, international criminal law scholars, political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, and anthropologists.It combines theoretical and