Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Table of international instruments -- National legislation -- Table of cases -- Abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Origin, context and development of transitional justice -- Defining transitional justice -- Origins of transitional justice -- Contemporary development of transitional justice: the era of democratisation and human rights -- Accountability for mass atrocities: dealing with the past, looking to the future -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Victims, victimology and transitional justice -- Who is a victim? -- Victimology and transitional justice -- The role of victims in transitional justice -- Justice -- Truth and reparations -- Guarantees of non-repetition -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Peace versus justice and rule of law debates in transitions -- The rule of law -- 'Truth versus justice' and 'peace versus justice' -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Prosecutions for abuses and gross violations of human rights -- Transitional justice: the Nuremberg and Tokyo paradigm -- Prosecution for gross violations of human rights as a transitional justice mechanism - prospects and challenges -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Truth commissions -- The right to truth -- History and features of truth commissions -- Challenges to the work of truth commissions -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Lustration and the personnel reform of the state -- The problem of inherited personnel and its problematic solutions -- What is in the name? Terminology of personnel reform -- Varieties of personnel reforms -- The origin of personnel systems -- Controversies of personnel reform and liberal democracy -- Effects on trust -- Effects on democratisation -- Conclusion -- Suggested further reading -- Chapter 7 Reparations.