Peace versus justice?
Subtitle: the dilemma of transitional justice in Africa
By: edited by Chandra Lekha Sriram and Suren Pillay
Publisher: James Currey; BOYE6
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781847010216; 9781869141738
Subjects: Transitional justice; Reconciliation; Truth commissions; War crime trials
Notes: Originally published: Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of transitional justice; title: Inclusive justice: the limitations of trial justice and truth commissions; title: Prosecute or pardon? Between truth commissions and war crimes trials; title: Gender and truth reconciliation commissions: comparative reflections; title: Transitional justice, democratisation and the rule of law; title: South Africa's truth and Reconciliation Commission from a global perspective; title: Reflecting on the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a peacebuilding perspective; title: Peace versus justice? A view from Nigeria; title: A path to peace and justice: Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission in retrospect; title: Peace and justice: Mozambique and Sierra Leone compared; title: Sierra Leone's 'not-so' special court; title: Charles Taylor, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and international politics; title: The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda: reconciling for acquitted; title: The politics of peace, justice and healing in post-war Mozambique: 'practices of rupture' by Magamba spirits and healers in Gorongosa; title: Indigenous justice or political instrument? The modern Gacaca courts of Rwanda; title: The International Criminal Court African experiment: the Central African Republic, Darfur, Northern Uganda and The Democratic Republic of the Congo; title: The International Criminal Court in Darfur.