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Bien, W. J., Bouckaert, P., Hanson, A., Khachikian, A., King, K., Laudy, M., Levy, T., Messing, B., Stettenheim, J., Tang, R., & Weinthal, E. (1999). Words Over War: Mediation and Arbitration to Prevent Deadly Conflict (M. Greenberg, J. H. Barton, & M. E. McGuinness, Eds.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

The international community can creatively and aggressively address deadly conflict through mediation, arbitration, and the development of international institutions to promote reconciliation. The editors of this book designed a systematic framework with which contributors compare third party intervention in twelve conflicts of the postDCold War period. They examine the role of international organizations_the United Nations, international development banks, and international law...

Kritz, N. J. (Ed.). (1995). Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, Volume III: Laws, Rulings, and Reports. United States Institute of Peace.

Includes over 100 laws, regulations and decrees, constitutional provisions, judicial decisions, reports of official, commissions of inquiry, and treaty excerpts from 28 countries and from international organizations.

Pross, C. (1824). Paying for the Past: The Struggle over Reparations for Surviving Victims of the Nazi Terror by Christian Pross. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Brooks, R. L. (Ed.). (1999). When Sorry Isn’t Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice. NYU Press.

Leading scholars, activists, and political leaders on being victim's of the world's worst atrocities"How much compensation ought to be paid to a woman who was raped 7,500 times? What would the members of the Commission want for their daughters if their daughters had been raped even once?"?Karen Parker, speaking before the U.N. Commission on Human RightsSeemingly every week, a new question arises relative to the current worldwide ferment over human injustices. Why does the U.S. offer $20,000...

Kritz, N. J. (Ed.). (1995). Transitional justice: how emerging democracies reckon with former regimes. United States Institute of Peace Press.

Ridener, J., & Cook, T. (2009). From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory. Litwin Books.

From Polders to Postmodernism is a broad ranging history of the conception and development of the theories that have guided archivists in their work from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries. Narrated through the controversial thread of archival appraisal theory, the book examines how archivists have engaged with theory through the tension between keeping records that reflect objective history "as it happened" and subjective decision making in the archive. Through an interpretive...

Leitenberg, M. (2006). Deaths in Wars and Conflicts in the 20th Century. Cornell University.

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Judt, T. (2006). Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Illustrated edition). Penguin Books.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal“Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston GlobeAlmost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed...

Huntington, S. P. (1993). The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century (Revised ed. edition). University of Oklahoma Press.

Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third Wave, Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the causes and nature of these democratic transitions, evaluates the prospects for stability of the new democracies, and explores the possibility of more...

Hobsbawm, E. (1996). The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 (Illustrated edition). Vintage.

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914–1950, the Golden Age, 1950–1973, and the Landslide, 1973–1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness, vibrancy, and insight, a work that ranks with his classics The Age of Empire and The Age of Revolution. In the short century between 1914 and 1991, the world has been convulsed by two global wars that swept away millions of lives and entire systems of government. Communism became a...

Hayner, P. B. (2010). Unspeakable Truths: Transitional Justice and the Challenge of Truth Commissions (2 edition). Routledge.

In a sweeping review of forty truth commissions, Priscilla Hayner delivers a definitive exploration of the global experience in official truth-seeking after widespread atrocities. When Unspeakable Truths was first published in 2001, it quickly became a classic, helping to define the field of truth commissions and the broader arena of transitional justice. This second edition is fully updated and expanded, covering twenty new commissions formed in the last ten years, analyzing new trends, and...

Roman, D. (2011). Political Effects: Trust in Government. In Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Haldemann, F., & Unger, T. (Eds.). (2018). The United Nations Set of Principles to Combat Impunity: A Commentary. Oxford University Press.

The fight against impunity has become a growing concern of the international community. Updated in 2005, the UN Set of Principles for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights Through Action to Combat Impunity is the fruit of several years of study, developed under the aegis of the UN Commission on Human Rights and then affirmed by the Human Rights Council. These Principles are today widely accepted as constituting an authoritative reference point for efforts in the fight against impunity...

Borggräfe, H., Höschler, C., Panek, I., & Arolsen Archives. (2019). A Paper Monument: The History of the Arolsen Archive. Bad Arolsen.

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Bassiouni, M. (1999). Crimes Against Humanity in International Criminal Law (1st edition). Springer.

In this revised edition, Professor Bassiouni persuasively establishes the legal validity of the Nuremberg Charter and describes the evolution of crimes against humanity' from 1945 to the 1998 ICC Statute. The book's comprehensive historical and legal analysis starts with the origins of this crime in the international regulation of armed conflicts and covers the Nuremberg, Tokyo and Allied Prosecutions after World War II, and subsequent national prosecutions, as well as the Statutes of the...

Brito, A. B. D., Enriquez, C. G., & Aguilar, P. (2001). The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies (1st edition). Oxford University Press.

One of the most important political and ethical issues faced during a political transition from authoritarian or totalitarian to democratic rule is how to deal with legacies of repression. This book explores the important aspect of transitional politics, assessing how Portugal, Spain, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Germany after reunification, Russia, the Southern Cone of Latin America and Central America, as well as South Africa, have confronted legacies of repression.

Arendt, H. (1963). Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Viking Press.

"While living in Argentina in 1960, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped and smuggled to Israel where he was put on trial for crimes against humanity. The New Yorker magazine sent Hannah Arendt to cover the trial. While covering the technical aspects of the trial, Arendt also explored the wider themes inherent in the trial, such as the nature of justice, the behavior of the Jewish leadership during the Nazi Régime, and, most controversially, the nature of Evil itself. Far from being evil...

Brazil Archdiocese of São Paulo. (1998). Torture in Brazil: A Shocking Report on the Pervasive Use of Torture by Brazilian Military Governments, 1964-1979, Secretly Prepared by the Archiodese of São Paulo (J. Dassin, Ed.; J. Wright, Trans.). University of Texas Press.

Winner, A Choice Outstanding Academic BookFrom 1964 until 1985, Brazil was ruled by a military regime that sanctioned the systematic use of torture in dealing with its political opponents. The catalog of what went on during that grim period was originally published in Portuguese as Brasil: Nunca Mais (Brazil: Never Again) in 1985.The volume was based on the official documentation kept by the very military that perpetrated the horrific acts. These extensive documents include military court...

Human Rights Council. (2011). solution adopted by the Human Rights Council - 18/7 Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence (A/HRC/RES/18/7). United Nations.

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Commission on Human Rights. (2006, November 27). Human Rights Council. Decision 2/105. Right to the Truth. United Nations.

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