Transitional justice encompasses a variety of measures devised to overcome legacies of
gross human rights violations and other historical injustices. The spread of international …

This book offers an up-to-date approach to the question of representing history through film,
exploring how films represent crucial events in twentieth-century European history. This …

This volume explores the effects of transitional justice measures on trust-building and
democratization across twelve countries in Central and Eastern Europe and parts of the …

Interpersonal trust in post-communist societies is particularly low, and is often cited as an
impediment to democratic consolidation. One way in which countries in Central and Eastern …

Dealing with personnel inherited from prior regimes in the administration of transitional
states is critical for democratic consolidation, a problem traditionally addressed by the …

Transitional societies necessarily face the past in general, and the legacy of human rights
violations in the previous regime in particular. The way of dealing with the past very much …

Among the many problems that emerged following the collapse of Eastern Europe's
Communist Party regimes was a set ofissues that peace activists, lawyers, and students of …

Memories of wrongdoings are often viewed as an obstacle to reconciliation in divided
societies. Is it due to the past or the present politics of the past? To examine the dilemma of …

The development of transitional justice measures can be fully understood only when one
takes into account the values, rationales and justifications that lie at the roots of various ways …

As an interdisciplinary field of scholarship, transitional justice is still in its pre-theoretical
stage, focusing mainly on the case and comparative studies, supported by general …