Restoring Justice after Large-scale Violent

This book provides a comparative analysis of the potential of restorative justice approaches to dealing with mass victimization in the context of large-scale violent conflicts focusing on case studies from Kosovo, Israel-Palestine and Congo, incorporating contributions from leading authorities in these areas. One of the main objectives of the book is to examine if, how and to what extent restorative justice is applicable in various different cultural, social and historical contexts, and what common themes can be identified within the different regions under analysis.

Ivo Aertsen is a professor at the Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), specialising in victimology, penology and restorative justice Jana Arsovska, Marta Valinas and Kris Vanspauwen are researchers at the same institute Holger-C. Rohne is a former researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg, Germany).

Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. xiii
Notes on contributors	p. xvii
Explanation of the COST Organisation	p. xxiv
Introduction	p. 1
Challenging restorative justice - state-based conflict, mass victimisation and the changing nature of warfare	p. 3
Dealing with violent conflicts and mass victimisation: a human dignity approach	p. 46
Case studies	p. 71
The Kosovo conflict	p. 73
Prologue to the Kosovo drama: causes and consequences of a violent ethno-political conflict	p. 75
Criminal judicial qualification and prosecution in the Racak case according to national and international legislation - Albanian perspective	p. 99
Criminological views and informal responses to the Racak massacre according to Albanian customary law and the principles of international law - Albanian perspective	p. 130
Potential for the use of informal mechanisms and responses to the Kosovo conflict - Serbian perspective	p. 157
A restorative approach for dealing with the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict - opportunities and limits	p. 183
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict	p. 213
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the second intifada - a cycle of violence	p. 215
Courting the intifada: discussing legal perspectives	p. 229
Israeli-Jewish cultural aspects of an event of violence: between biblical codes and Zionist ideology - Israeli perspective	p. 252
Cultural aspects in responding to violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Palestinian perspective	p. 268
Opportunities and limits for applying restorative justice in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict	p. 279
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo	p. 321
The conflict in the DR Congo: a story of failed transitions and interlocking conflicts	p. 323
Decayed, decimated, usurped and inadequate: the challenge of finding justice through formal mechanisms in the DR Congo	p. 336
Between peace and justice: informal mechanisms in the DR Congo	p. 359
Restorative justice and truth-seeking in the DR Congo: much closing for peace, little opening for justice	p. 392
Conclusion	p. 411
Racak, Mahane Yehuda and Nyabyondo: restorative justice between the formal and the informal	p. 413
From micro to macro, from individual to state: restorative justice and multi-level diplomacy in divided societies	p. 444
Index	p. 461
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