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Transitional Justice
Transitional Justice (LW538)
Transitional Justice introduces post-graduate students to the debates, concepts and dilemmas in the relatively new field of transitional justice, exploring the various accountability mechanisms that exist in addition to international or domestic criminal prosecution.
Format: The course will be taught by weekly seminars, each three hours, over eight weeks. Students are expected to have read all prescribed readings in advance of each seminar, thus requiring independent study of 8-10 hours each week.
Semester: 2
ECTS: 10
Lecturer: Dr. Anita Ferrara
Learning Outcomes:On successful completion of this course, you will be able:
- to identify the design, workings and outcomes of various transitional justice mechanisms
- to critically evaluate the transitional justice mechanisms in light of stated objectives such as justice, truth, peace and reconciliation, and compliance with human rights law
- to understand and assimilate socio-legal arguments with respect to transitional justice
- to understand the role of various transitional justice mechanisms in complementing international criminal justice
