The Era of Transitional Justice explores a broad set of issues raised by political transition
and transitional justice through the prism of the South African TRC. South Africa constitutes a …

Scope and purpose:-Since the late 1980s,'transitional justice'(TJ) principles and practices
have gradually become normalised in international relations diplomacy and international …

Families of the Missing interrogates the current practice of transitional justice from the
viewpoint of the families of those disappeared and missing as a result of conflict and political …

Post-conflict societies are defined as such by the histories of violence they haveexperienced
and which are inscribed in the minds and on the bodies of theirvictims. This study aims to …

While there have been numerous violent events in Timor Leste the one act that holds
significant political and social meaning for the local population is a massacre that occurred …

East Timor2 was the first new nation created in the twenty-first century. It has only recently
emerged from some 450 years of Portuguese and Indonesian colonisation. Its extraordinary …

This thesis aims to interrogate the current practice of transitional justice from the viewpoint of
the victims of the violations that it seeks to address. The study challenges approaches to …

In 2007, I was staying at the Holiday Inn in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG), with my
family. During this time my friend Karuka (a pseudonym) came to visit us. Knowing that my …

East Timor has emerged as one of the world's newest nations after a turbulent history
comprising 450 years of Portuguese rule followed by civil war, invasion, and twenty-five …

The topic of this thesis is transitional justice in East Timor. After over two decades of brutal
Indonesian occupation that culminated with a scorched earth campaign in 1999, East Timor …