TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND PEACEBUILDING

Description

Course Title	Course Code	Semester	Required/Elective	Theory + Practice	ECTS
Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding	SBU618	II. SEMESTER	Elective Courses	4+0	7.5

Language of Instruction	Türkçe
Course Type	Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s)	DR. ÖĞR. ÜYESİ VOLKAN ŞEYŞANE
Mode of Delivery	Face to face
Prerequisites	There are no prerequisites and corequisites for this course.
Courses Recommended	ULI519 Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution
Reading List	Amstutz, M. R. (2005). The Healing of Nations: The Promise and Limits of Political Forgiveness. Lahnam: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Arthur, P. (2009). How ‘Transitions’ Reshaped Human Rights: A Conceptual History of Transitional Justice. Human Rights Quarterly. 31. 321-367.Baker, C. and J. Obradovic-Wochnik (2016). Mapping the Nexus of Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 10 (3) 281-301.Barsalou, J. and Baxter, V. (2007). The Urge to Remember: The Role of Memorials in Social Reconstruction and Transitional Justice. Stabilization and Reconstruction Series No. 5. Washington DC: US Institute of Peace. Bickford, L. (2004). Transitional Justice. In D. L. Shelton (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Macmillian Reference. Vol.3. (pp. 1045-147) Detroit, Michigan: Macmillian Reference USA.Buckley-Zistel, S. (2018). Transitional Justice. In C. Brown & R. Eckersley (Eds.). The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory. (pp. 153-165). Oxford: Oxford University Press.Buckley-Zistel, S. and Björkdahl, A. (2017). Memorials and Transitional Justice. In O. Simic (Ed.). An Introduction to Transitional Justice. (pp.249-267) New York: Routledge.Duthie, R. (2007). Introduction. In A. Mayer-Rieckh and P. de Greiff (Eds.). Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies. (pp. 17-38). Chicago: Social Science Research Council. Elster, J. (2004). Closing the Books Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press.Fijalkowski, A. (2017). Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In O. Simic (Ed.). An Introduction to Transitional Justice. (pp. 91-112.) New York: Routledge.Fischer, M (2011). Transitional Justice and Reconciliation: Theory and Practice. In Austin, M. Fischer, H. J. Giessmann, Barbara Budrich (Eds.). Advancing Conflict Transformation: The Berghof Handbook II. (pp. 405-430.) Opladen/Framington Hills B. Publishers.Freeman, M. (2000). Transitional Justice: Fundamental Goals and Unavoidable Complications. Manitoba Law Journal. 28(1) 113-122.Freeman, M. (2006). Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness. New York: Cambridge University Press. Friedman, R. and A. Jillions (2015). The Pitfalls and Politics of Holistic Justice. Global Policy. 6 (2) 141-150.Garcia-Godos, J. (2017). Reparations. In O. Simic (Ed.). An Introduction to Transitional Justice. (pp. 177-200). New York: Routledge.Hayner, P. (2004). Truth Commissions. In D. L. Shelton (Ed.). The Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Macmillian Reference Vol 3. (pp. 1047-1051) Detroit, Michigan, Macmillian Reference USA.Hayner, P. (2018). The Peacemaker’s Paradox: Pursuing Justice in the Shadow of Conflict. New York: Routledge.Hayner, P.B. (2011). Unspeakable Truths: Transitional Justice and Challenge of Truth Commissions. London: Routledge. Herman, J., O. Martin-Ortega, O. and C. L. Sriram. (2014). Beyond justice versus peace: Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding Strategies. In K. Aggestam and A. Björkdahl (Ed.) Rethinking Peacebuilding: The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans (pp.48-63). New York, Oxford: Routledge.Hirsch, M. B. (2007). Agents of Truth and Justice: Truth Commissions and the Transitional Justice Epistemic Community. In D. Chandler and V. Heins Oxon (Eds.) Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy: Pitfalls, Possibilities and Paradoxes. (pp.184-205). Oxon: Routledge. Hirsch, M. B. (2009). And the Truth Shall Make You Free: The International Norm of Truth-seeking. PhD Thesis. Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hirsch, M. B. (2014). Ideational Change and the Emergence of the International Norm of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. European Journal of International Relations 20 (3) 810-833. Kent, L. (2017). Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding. In O. Simic (Ed.). An Introduction to Transitional Justice. (pp.201-222) New York: Routledge.Kerr. R. (2017). International Criminal Justice. In O. Simic (Ed.). An Introduction to Transitional Justice. (pp.47-67) New York: Routledge. Kora, A. (2010). Transitional Justice: A New Discipline in Human Rights. Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence. Retrieved on August 14, 2020 from http://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/transitional-justice-new-discipline-human-rights.Leebaw, B. (2003). Legitimation or Judgment? South Africa’s Restorative Approach to Transitional Justice. Polity. 36 (1) 23-51.Lutz, E. (2006). Transitional Justice: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead. In Ed. by. N. Roth-Arriaza and J. Mariezcurrena (Eds.) Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century Beyond Truth versus Justice. (pp.325-341) New York: Cambridge University Press. Mani, R. (2007). Beyond Retribution: Seeking Justice in the Shadows of War. Cambridge, Maldon: Polity Press.Meernik, J., R. Aloisi, A.D. Nichols and M. Sowell (2010). The Impact of Tribunals and Truth Commissions on Post-Conflict Peace Building. In J. J. Hewitt, J. Wilkenfeld, T. R. Gurr (Eds.). Peace and Conflict 2010 (pp. 103-116). Boulder: Paradigm Publisher.Mihr, A. (2017). An Introduction to Transitional Justice. In O. Simic (Ed.). An Introduction to Transitional Justice. (pp. 1-27.) New York: Routledge.Minow, M. (2008). Making History or Making Peace: When Prosecutions should give way to Truth Commissions and Peace Negotiations. Journal of Human Rights. 7. 174-185.Nagy, R. (2008). Transitional Justice as Global Project: Critical Reflections. Third World Quarterly 29 (2). 275-289.Olsen, T.D., L.A. Payne and A. G. Reiter (2010). Transitional Justice in Balance Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy. Washington D.C.: US Institute of Peace.Orentlicher, D. F. (1991). Settling Accounts: The Duty to Prosecute Human Rights Violations of a Prior Regime. The Yale Law Journal. Symposium: International Law. 100 (8) 2537-2615.Reiter, A. (2017). The Development of Transitional Justice. In O. Simic (Ed.). An Introduction to Transitional Justice. (pp.29-46.) New York: Routledge.Roth- Arriaza, N. (2001). The Role of International Actors in National Accountability Processes. In A. B. de Brito, C. Gonzalez-Erniques and P. Aguilar (Eds.). The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies. (pp.40-64). New York: Oxford University Press. Roth- Arriaza, N. (2006). The New Landscape of Transitional Justice. In N. Roth-Arriaza and J. Mariezcurrena. Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century Beyond Truth versus Justice, (pp.1-16) New York: Cambridge University Press.Seils, P. (2017). The Place of Reconciliation in Transitional Justice: Conceptions and Misconceptions. ICTJ Briefing. June. 1-16.Sharp, D. N. (2013). Interrogating Peripheries: The Preoccupations of Fourth Generation Transitional Justice. Harvard Human Rights Journal. 26. 149-178.Sriram, C. L. (2009). Introduction: Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding. In C. L. Sriram and S. Pillay (Ed.). Peace versus Justice? The Dilemma of Transitional Justice in Africa. (pp.1-17). Scottsville: University of KwaZul-Natal Press. Sriram, C.L. (2009). Transitional Justice and the Liberal Peace. In E. Newman, R. Paris, O. Richmond (Eds.). New Perspectives on Liberal Peacebuilding. (pp.112-130) Tokyo: United Nations University Press. Stan, L. (2017). Lustration and Vetting. In O. Simic (Ed.). An Introduction to Transitional Justice. (pp.137-155.) New York: Routledge.Teitel, R. (2000). Transitional Justice. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.Teitel, R. (2008). Editorial Note-Transitional Justice Globalized. The International Journal of Transitional Justice. 2.1-4.Teitel, R. G. (2003). Transitional Justice Genealogy. Harvard Human Rights Journal. 16. 69-94UN (2004). The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies, S/2004/616. New York: UN.UN (2010). Guidance Note of the Secretary-General United Nations Approach to Transitional Justice. Retrieved on December 5, 2016 from https://www.un.org/ruleoflaw/files/TJ_Guidance_Note_March_2010FINAL.pdfUNDP (2006). Vetting Public Employee in Post-conflict Settings: Operational Guidelines. New York: UNDP.van Zyl, P. (1999). Dilemmas of Transitional Justice: The Case of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Journal of International Affairs, Seeking International Justice: The Role of Institutions. 52 (2) 647-667.van Zyl, P. (2005). Promoting Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies. In A. Bryden and H. Hanggi (Eds.) Security Governance in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. (pp.209-231). DCAF.Waldorf, L. (2017). Local Transitional Justice. In O. Simic (Ed.). An Introduction to Transitional Justice. (pp.157-176) New York: Routledge.Williams, M. S. and R. Nagy (2012). Introduction. In J. Elster, M. S. Williams and R. Nagy (Eds.). Transitional Justice. (pp.1-30). London, New York: New York University Press. Wilson, R. A. (2001). Justice and Legitimacy in the South African Transition. In A. B. de Brito, C. Gonzalez-Enriquez and P. Auilar (Eds). The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies. (pp.190-217). New York: Oxford University Press.
Assessment Methods	Essay, presentation and final exam
Work Placement	There is no practice or internship in the course.