Restorative Justice in Transitional Settings

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The book brings together leading scholars to reflect on the challenges that the current application of restorative justice in transitional settings creates for our conceptions of what restorative justice is and what its objectives should be. Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1 Restorative justice as a contested response to conflict and the challenge of the transitional context: an introduction 2 Clearing the conceptual haze: restorative justice concepts in transitional settings 3 Exploring restorative justice in situations of political violence: the case of Colombia 4 Restorative justice and reconciliation: the missing link in transitional justice 5 Stalking the state: the state as a stakeholder in post-conflict restorative justice 6 Participation as restoration: the current limits of restorative justice for victim participants in international criminal trials 7 Working across frontiers in Northern Ireland: the contribution of community-based restorative justice to security and justice in local communities 8 Restorative justice in transitions: the problem of ‘the community’ and collective responsibility 9 Harmonising global criminal justice for peacebuilding 10 Learning to scale up restorative justice 11 When does transitional justice begin and end? Colonised peoples, liberal democracies and restorative justice 12 Towards a transformative vision of restorative justice as a response to mass victimisation: some concluding thoughts Index