Gender in Transitional Justice - (Governance and Limited Statehood) by S Buckley-Zistel & R Stanley (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Based on original empirical research, this book explores retributive and gender justice, the potentials and limits of agency, and the correlation of transitional justice and social change through case studies of current dynamics in post-violence countries such Rwanda, South Africa, Cambodia, East Timor, Columbia, Chile and Germany.

About the Author

LOUISE CHAPPELL Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia NIKITA DHAWAN Junior Professor for Political Science at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany RIRHANDU MAGEZA-BARTHEL Political Scientist and Research Assistant for Gender and Postcolonial Studies within the Cluster of Excellence 'The Formation of Normative Orders' at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany FIONNUALA NÍ AOLÁIN Dorsey and Whitney Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law at the Transitional Justice Institute of the University of Ulster in Belfast, UK CATHERINE O'ROUKE Lecturer in Human Rights and International Law as weel as Gender Research Coordinator at the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) of the University of Ulster, UK ELISABETH PORTER Professor and Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of South Australia ROMI SIGSWORTH Senior Researcher in the Gender Based Violence Programme at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), South Africa SILKE STUDZINSKY Working for more than 17 years as a Criminal Defence Lawyer and as a Legal Representative for Civil Parties before Criminal Courts in Germany, and elsewhere in Europe NAHLA VALJI Programme Specialist on Rule of Law at UNIFEM (now part of UN Women), USA. ANGELIKA VON WAHL Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Government andLaw at Lafayette College, USA MAGDALENA ZOLKOS Research Fellow in Political Theory with the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at the University of Western Sydney, Australia