Module POLM152 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
POLM152: Post-Conflict Human Rights and Transitional Justice
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
Chandra Lekha Sriram, Confronting Past Human Rights Violations: Justice v. Peace in Times of Transition, London and New York: Frank Cass, 2004.
Henry J Steiner, Philip Alston, and Ryan Goodman, International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals, Third Edition, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Michael Goodhart (ed.), Human Rights: Politics and Practice, Oxford University Press, 2009.
Joanna Quinn, Reconciliation(s): Transitional Justice in Postconflict Societies, Montreal and Kingston: McGillQueen’s University Press, 2009.
Pablo de Grieff, ‘Theorizing Transitional Justice’. In Transitional Justice, Nomos, Volume L. Edited by Melissa Williams, Rosemary Nagy, and Jon Elster, New York, NY: New York University Press, 2012.
Priscilla Hayner, Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Atrocity and Terror, Routledge, 2001.
Paul Gready and Simon Robins. ‘From Transitional Justice to Transformative Justice: a New Agenda in Practice’, The International Journal for Transitional Justice 8, no. 3, 2014.
Kirsten Ainley, Rebekka Friedman, and Chris Mahony, eds, Evaluating Transitional Justice: Accountability and Peacebuilding in PostConflict Sierra Leone, Palgrave, 2015.
Roht-Arriaza, Naomi and Javier Mariezcurrena (eds), Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth versus Justice, Cornel University Press, 2006.
United Nations. ‘What is Transitional Justice? A Backgrounder’. (February 20, 2008), available at: http://www.un.org/en/peacebuilding/pdf/doc_wgll/justice_times_transition/26_02_2008_backgrou nd_note.pdf.
