This introduction provides an overview for the following collection of articles that engage
with, and aim to extend, recent scholarship emphasising space as a category of analysis in …

The 'forensic turn'in transitional justice has seen technologies of identification, notably DNA,
become an essential part of recommended responses to missing and disappeared persons …

The article aims at remapping the relationship between Global North and Global South
spatial politics in relation to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, in the Ugandan …

The concept of human security argues that the improvement of peoples wellbeing and
livelihoods is a vital component in the stability of the state. What happens, however, when …

Over the two decades since, there has been a slow but gradual recovery; some new houses
have taken the place of burnt out ones, schools have opened, a police station and health …

This chapter explores the complex and ambiguous entanglements that exist between torture
and death. Surprisingly, as we show, death remains a marginal topic in torture debates …

This chapter explores the complex and ambiguous entanglements that exist between torture
and death (see Fontein 2010). A range of scholars have already established the powerful …

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change.
It requires symbolic as well as practical action. This axiomatic statement of Malcolm Fraser …

How can people envision a future together with a former enemy after experiencing a violent
conflict? Consider the de facto division of Moldova-Transdniestria, which has persisted for …