The intention of this book is to represent a multidisciplinary angle for the study of transitional justice. In this way the book intends also to be a contribution to the interdisciplinary study of human rights.

Contents:

Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and History (Roel de Lange)
The ICC and Transitional Justice: Should the Prosecutor Exercise Discretion in the Interests of Peace?(Kenneth A. Rodman)
No man is an island; The legitimacy of international criminal processas a form of transitional justice (Chrisje Brants)
Dialogue between Lawyers and Historians on Transitional Justicethe Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the Case of Srebrenica (Bob de Graaff)
L'union fait la force; Post-Conflict Housing Restitution in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Antoine Buyse)Compensation for victims of genocide (Stephan Parmentier)
Time, restitution and the law (Wouter Veraart and Laurens Winkel)

In discussing problems of Transitional justice scholars from various disciplines have to work together. If this is not true for all legal problems, it is certainly true for this topic. That is demonstrated by the contributions to this book, which is the outcome of the Annual Conference 2006 of the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research. In this school, lawyers and social scientists and historians from 5 different universities in the Netherlands work together on common research themes. So far, the issue of Transitional justice has gotten attention in many different corners of the school, and in various disciplines. Criminal lawyers, international lawyers, political scientists, sociologists of law as well as legal historians have their own perspective from which this theme is addressed.