Details of Newly Published Books

Exiled to Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya (Nowhere People) [access]
- See also Irawaddy review.

From the Book Shelves: The Law of Asylumby Deborah E. Anker (ImmigrationProf, June 2012) [access]

New Book: Hope: Refugees and Their Supporters in Australia since 1947 (BroCAP, June 2012) [access]
- See also publisher site.

New Book: Countering Displacements: The Creativity and Resilience of Indigenous and Refugee-ed Peoples (Refugee Research Network, June 2012) [access]

Responding to Protracted Crises: The Principled Model of NMPACT in Sudan (ODI, June 2012) [access]
- Chapter from Beyond Relief: Food Security in Protracted Crises (Practical Action, 2008).

Two Forthcoming Books on the Palestinian Refugee Issue (PRRN Blog, June 2012) [access]

A new book entitled UNHCR and International Refugee Law: From Treaties to Innovation, by Corinne Lewis, hasjust been published by Routledge.  Here’s the description:

This book considers the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ contribution to international refugee law since the establishment of UNHCR by the United Nations General Assembly in 1951. The book explores the historical and statutory foundations that create an indelible link between UNHCR and international refugee law. This book charts the significant evolution that has occurred in the organisation’s role throughout the last sixty years, looking at both the formal means by which UNHCR’s mandate may be modified, and the techniques UNHCR has used to facilitate the changes in its role, thereby revealing a significant evolution in the organisation’s role since the onset of the crisis in refugee protection in the 1980’s. UNHCR, itself, has demonstrated its organizational autonomy as the primary agent for the adaptation of its responsibilities and work related to international refugee law. The author does suggest however that UNHCR needs to continue to extend and strengthen its role related to international refugee law if UNHCR is to ensure a stronger legal framework for the protection of refugees as well as a fuller respect for refugees’ rights in practice.

The source for all of these publications was the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog at: http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

 

New Publications on Africa; Information and Communication Technologies; UNHCR

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) released a new report today; Internal Displacement in Africa: A Development Challenge ”highlights how internal displacement is not just an humanitarian, human rights or peace-building challenge, but also a development one.”

Other recent publications on Africa include:

Darfurians in South Sudan: Negotiating Belonging in Two Sudans, Citizenship and Displacement in the Great Lakes Region Working Paper, no. 7 (International Refugee Rights Initiative, May 2012) [text]

“It Takes the Whole Village”: Assisting Socially and Economically Marginalized Women in African Refugee Camps and Post-Displacement Venues, Graduate Student Projects, Paper no. 2 (Boise State University, May 2012) [text]

Kenya: Enhancing Information and Transparency for Internally Displaced Persons (Article 19, June 2012) [text]

UNHCR Repatriates almost 14,000 Angolans; Steps up Pace of Return Ahead of Deadline (UNHCR, June 2012) [text]

“We can run away from bombs, but not from hunger”: Sudan’s Refugees in South Sudan (Amnesty International, June 2012) [text]

Closing the Loop: Responding to People’s Information Needs from Crisis Response to Recovery to Development – A Case Study of Post-Earthquake Haiti (Internews, May 2012) [text]

Crisis Mapping, Humanitarian Principles and the Application of Protection Standards: A Dialogue between Crisis Mappers and Operational Humanitarian Agencies, Geneva, 17 Nov. 2011 (World Vision, 2012) [text]

Deepening Participation and Improving Aid Effectiveness through Media and ICTs: A Practical Manual Translating Lessons Learned into Daily Practice (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2011) [text]

New Technologies in Humanitarian Aid, London, 29 March 2012 (ODI, March 201) [access]

Social Media Use and the Humanitarian Sector (Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, April 2012) [text]

Still Left in the Dark? How People in Emergencies Use Communication to Survive – and How Humanitarian Agencies Can Help, Policy Briefing, no. 6 (BBC Media Action, March 2012) [text]

Urban Refugee Protection in Cairo: The Role of Communication, Information and Technology, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 236 (UNHCR, May 2012) [text]

When Information Saves Lives: 2011 Annual Report – Internews Humanitarian Information Projects (Internews Network, Jan. 2012) [text]

Humanitarians without Borders: Work, Mobility and Wellbeing in UNHCR, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 237 (UNHCR, May 2012) [text]

“Statelessness and Human Rights: The Role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),” EAFIT Journal of International Law, vol. 2, no. 2 (2011) [full-text]

“The Uneven Development of the International Refugee Regime in Postwar Asia: Evidence from China, Hong Kong and Indonesia,” Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Access, 25 June 2012 [abstract]
- Examines past UNHCR’s approach to refugee problems in Asia.

The source for all of these publications was the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog at: http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

Publications on Human Trafficking; Europe; Displacement; Resettlement

The U.S. State Department launched its Trafficking in Persons Report for 2012 yesterday.  Access to the text is available here; more information about the report is provided in this briefing.

Trafficking in Human Beings: New Impetus in Fighting the Modern Form of Slavery (European Commission, June 2012) [access]

Trafficking in Persons: International Dimensions and Foreign Policy Issues for Congress (Congressional Research Service, April 2012) [text]

UNHCR Statement on the Application of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protcol to Victims of Trafficking in France (UNHCR, June 2012) [text]

Can Frontex Be Held Liable for Human Rights Violations? Potential Application of Recent European Case Law to the Activities of an Inter-Governmental Agency (SSRN, June 2012) [text]

EU Migration Policy and Its Reflection in Third Countries: Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine (Bridge, 2012) [text]
- See esp. chapters on “Functioning of the EU Management of External Borders with Emphasis on Migration and Asylum Problems,” “Application of Legislation of the Republic of Belarus on Refugees and the Main Lines of its Development,” “Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Context of the European Union Policies: the Case of Greece,” and “General Legal Aspect on Asylum within European Union and Italy: A Comprehensive Proposal for a Regulatory Reform.”

Forward, Backward, Stalling? Seminar Series Reflects on the Completion of the Common European Asylum System (RSC, June 2012) [access]
- Includes link to podcasts.

“I came here for peace”: The Systematic Ill-treatment of Migrants and Refugees by State Agents in Patras (Pro Asyl & Greek Council for Refugees, May 2012) [text]

S.O.S. Europe: Human Rights and Migration Control (Amnesty International, June 2012) [text]
- See also “When you don’t exist” campaign.

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) released its “annual summary of the numbers of people internally displaced by sudden onset natural disasters” yesterday. Global Estimates 2011: People Displaced by Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters found that “in 2011, 14.9 million people were internally displaced throughout the world due to natural disasters, mostly related to weather events such as floods and storms.”  Most displacement took place in Asia.

Does the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program Work? The Economic Outcomes of Program Participants, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Georgetown University, 2009; posted Feb. 2012) [text]

A Pillar of Protection: Solidarity Resettlement for Refugees in Latin America, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 239 (UNHCR, June 2012) [text]

The Resettlement of Refugees in Australia: A Bibliography (Swinburne Institute for Social Research, May 2012) [text via APO]

The source for all of these publications was the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog at: http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

Publications on Housing; Gender & LGBT Matters; Protection; and Middle East/North Africa

Climate Displacement in Bangladesh: The Need for Urgent Housing, Land and Property Rights Solutions (Displacement Solutions, May 2012) [text]

From Shelter to Housing: Security of Tenure and Integration in Protracted Displacement Settings (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2011; posted May 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related comment on TerraNullius.

“‘Home Tonight? What? Where?’ An Exploratory Study of the Meanings of House, Home and Family among the Former Vietnamese Refugees in a Canadian City,”Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung = Forum: Qualitative Social Research, vol. 13, no. 2 (2012) [open access text]

IDPs in Host Families and Host Communities: Assistance for Hosting Arrangements (UNHCR, April 2012) [text]

Frozen Words: Memory and Sexual Violence amongst Sudanese Refugee Women in Cairo, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 240 (UNHCR, June 2012) [text]

Opening Doors: A Global Survey of NGO Attitudes towards LGBTI Refugees & Asylum Seekers (ORAM, June 2012) [text]

“A Question of Discretion: A Critical Analysis of New Legal and Evidentiary Hurdles for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) Asylum Seekers in the United Kingdom,” Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 2, no. 1 (June 2012) [full-text]

Asylum under Threat: Assessing the Protection of Somali Refugees in Dadaab Refugee Camps and along the Migration Corridor (Danish Refugee Council, June 2012) [text]

Interim Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Côte d’Ivoire (UNHCR, June 2012) [text]

Is India a ‘Safe Third Country’ for a Bhutanese Citizen Seeking Asylum in the United States? (SSRN, Feb. 2012) [text]

Roundtable on Due Process Considerations relating to the Use of Country of Origin Information in Refugee Status Determination Procedures, London, 22 May 2012 [text]

Serbia as a Safe Country: Revisited (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, June 2012) [textvia Refworld]

Smuggling of Asylum-seekers and Criminal Justice, RLI Working Paper, no. 5 (Refugee Law Initiative, June 2012) [text]

The Arab Spring and Beyond: Summary of Recent Workshop (RSC, June 2012) [access]

“The Education of Adult Refugees in Cairo: Influences and Impacts,” Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 2, no. 1 (June 2012) [full-text]

Frozen Words: Memory and Sexual Violence amongst Sudanese Refugee Women in Cairo, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 240 (UNHCR, June 2012) [text]

Joint Needs Assessment of Sahrawi Refugees in Algeria, 4 to 14 October 2011 (WFP & UNHCR, 2011; posted 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

Life of a Refugee (American University in Cairo, May 2012) [access]
- Documentary of refugees seeking protection in Egypt.

North Africa and Displacement 2011-2012 [access]
- Focus of new issue of Forced Migration Review.

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon (ANERA, June 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

The source for all of these publications was the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog at: http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

New Publications on Fragile States/Conflict; Reference Resources; and Health

Berghof Glossary on Conflict Transformation: 20 Notions for Theory and Practice (Berghof Foundation, 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

Development in the Shadow of Violence: A Knowledge Agenda for Policy: Report on the Future Direction of Investment in Evidence on Issues of Fragility, Security and Conflict (Center on International Cooperation, Nov. 2011) [text]

Evaluation of the Performance of SDC Instruments in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, May 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

Failed States Index 2012 (Fund for Peace, June 2012) [access]
- Use the interactive map to go to a specific country or download the book.

Global Peace Index 2012 (Vision of Humanity, June 2012) [access]

State-Building, Peace-Building and Service Delivery in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States: Literature Review (CfBT Education Trust et al., May 2011) [access]

Strengthening the Rule of Law in Crisis-affected and Fragile Situations (UNDP, 2011) [text]

Internal Displacement in Nairobi: A Literature Review (NRC & IDMC, Dec. 2011) [text via ALNAP]

Les Migrations, les Réfugiés, les Droits de l’Homme: Un Guide Bibliographique des Publications parues en Langue Française, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 216 (UNHCR, Aug. 2011) [text]

The Resettlement of Refugees in Australia: A Bibliography (Swinburne Institute for Social Research, May 2012) [text via APO]

The Role of Family Links in Settlement: An Annotated Bibliography (Refugee Council of Australia, April 2012) [text]

Integrated Monitoring: A Practical Manual for Organisations That Want to Achieve Results (inProgress, 2012) [text]

The Management Handbook for UN Field Missions (International Peace Institute, 2012) [text]

UNHCR Style Companion: A Quick Reference Guide for Writing at Work (UNHCR, Feb. 2012) [text]

Humanitarian Medicine (Crash/Fondation Médecins Sans Frontières, May 2012) [text]

“Are There Differences in Injury Mortality among Refugees and Immigrants Compared with Native-born?,”Injury Prevention, OnlineFirst, 24 May 2012 [open access]

“Health and Health Care of African Refugees: An Underrecognized Minority,” Journal of the National Medical Association, vol. 104, nos. 1&2 (Jan./Feb. 2012) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 61.

Positive Duty of Care? The Mental Health Crisis in Immigration Detention (Mental Health in Immigration Detention Project, May 2012) [access]

New Publications on Climate Change, Migration, and Europe

Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict

Climate Change, Environment and Migration in the Sahel: Selected Issues with a Focus on Senegal and Mali, Working Paper, no. 1 (MICLE, 2012) [text]

Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict: Challenges for Societal Stability (Springer, 2012) [info]
- Part 4 focuses on “Climate Change and Migration”; includes chapters on “Climate Change and Human Migration: Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Refugees,” “‘Climate Refugees’ as Dawning Catastrophe? A Critique of the Dominant Quest for Numbers,” and “Environmentally-Forced Migration in Rural Areas: Security Risks and Threats in Mexico.”

Advanced Seminar on Migration, Refugees, Climate Change, and Law, Geneva, 13-14 Feb. 2012 [info]
- Watch for report.

Climate Displacement in Bangladesh: The Need for Urgent Housing, Land and Property Rights Solutions (Displacement Solutions, May 2012) [text]

Environmental Migration Newsletter, no. 1 (Spring 2012) [text via UK Climate Change & Migration Coalition]

Migration and Climate Change (Network Migration in Europe, June 2012) [text]

Policy Options to Support Climate-induced Migration in Asia and the Pacific (ADB, 2012) [text]

Policy Perspectives for Environmentally-induced Migration (Network Migration in Europe, Jan. 2012) [text]

Population Distribution, Migration and Climate Change in Australia: An Exploration (National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, March 2012) [text]

There’s No Such Thing as a “Climate Refugee” (Refugees International Blog, June 2012) [text]

3rd Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum (European Commission, May 2012) [text]
- Covers developments in 2011; see also related press release.

EU Member States and Asylum Policy: Theoretical Approaches (e-International Relations, May 2012) [text]

Gender-related Asylum Claims in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Law, Policies and Practice Focusing on Women in Nine EU Member States (Asylum Aid, May 2012) [text]
- See also related article in latest issue of Women’s Asylum News.

Human Rights Violations in Europe: The Case of Living Conditions of Asylum Seekers in Germany, Student Thesis (University of Twente, 2012) [text]

The source for all of these publications was the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog at: http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/

 

New Publications on USCRI; Asia; and Australia

USCRI 2011 Annual Report

U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Annual Report 2011.
Produced by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, (USCRI).

The 2011 Annual Report of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants is now available online.  2011 was a very successful year for USCRI.  In our Annual Report, you will learn more about USCRI’s accomplishments to protect those fleeing repression and strife, to serve the uprooted, and to help them to integrate into their new American communities.

In 2011 we launched a national program to help the victims of human trafficking, grew our services to aid unaccompanied migrant children in need of legal representation, and expanded the reach of our resettlement services into three new communities.  The network of our 33 partner agencies across the country continued to broaden their services to immigrants.

[Download Full Report]
(Source: U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants)

Pedlars of hate: the violent impact of the European far right
By the Institute of Race Relations.

New report from IRR, which “brings together over 100 cases, mostly from EU countries, but also Switzerland and Norway, which documents patterns of violence, from the peddling of hate online and the drawing up of lists of ‘national traitors’, to violence, arson and murder on the streets, and the stockpiling of weapons in preparation for ‘race war’.”

[Download Full Report]
(Source: IRR News, 9-14 June)

Publications on Asia and Australia
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Central Asia: Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, May 2012) [text]
- See also related blog post.

Financial Life in a New Setting: Experiences of Afghan and Burmese (Chin and Karen) Communities in Melbourne, Australia (Brotherhood of St Laurence, May 2012) [text]

Immigration Detention: What are the Alternatives? (FlagPost, May 2012) [text]

Income Management: Impacts on Refugee and Humanitarian Entrants (Refugee Council of Australia, May 2012) [text]

Investing in Refugee Health: The Role of Caste Hierarchy on Mental Health among Bhutanese Refugees, Thesis submitted to the Department of Global Health (Duke University, May 2012)  [text]

Mental Health Care Thailand: Views of Mental Health, the Karen Refugees and Young Thai Mental Health Situation, and Cultural Sensitivity for Counselors (Service Learning in Thailand, April 2012) [text]

Thousands of Myanmar Rohingyas Struggle for Refugee Status in India (India Ink, May 2012) [text]

Call for Papers: Human Rights and Climate Change

*** Apologies for Cross Posting ***

ISCH COST Action IS1101
Climate Change and Migration: Knowledge, Law and Policy, and Theory
Working Group II: Law and Policy

First Networking Workshop on Human Rights Legal Frameworks in the Climate Change Regime

Date: 6-7 Sept 2012
Begin: 14:00, Thurs 6 Sept 2012
End:     14:00 Fri 7 Sept 2012
Place:  Utrecht University, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), The Netherlands   http://www.uu.nl/sim

Workshop theme

Is there a legal framework that adequately addresses human rights issues and the consequences of climate change? Is the current legal framework for the protection of human rights capable of addressing climate change and migration issues? Can the two regimes, both climate change and human rights, ever be reconciled or are they, for the time being, too different to target the issues of climate change from a human rights based approach?

In spite of its growing political and cultural significance, social science research on climate change and migration remains comparatively sparse. The interdisciplinary field of migration studies has engaged extensively in migration and refugee research in respect of war, poverty and globalisation. Legal scholars and human rights experts have looked at uprooted people such as so called “climate refugees”, working migrants or asylum seekers from the framework of the international human rights regime. The climate change issues are often seen in the borders of environmental law because there are (so far) not many other legal alternatives to deal with the direct consequences of climate change. Yet, the different disciplines have not exchanged much of their knowledge and experience in their fields.

In the light of the growing demand to link social and legal sciences, this workshop aims to a) bring together expertise from different disciplines with different perspectives of the issue b) initiate a dialogue between academic scholars, NGOs, governments and other stakeholders in the area of human rights and climate change and c) identify possible bottlenecks which impede cooperation between the climate change and human rights regimes.

Our major goals for the next three years are to improve understanding and cooperation in these issues, develop normative ideas and governance mechanisms that might be used for managing migration or potential migration resulting from climate change, assist in the alignment of human rights law and environmental/climate change law, and provide all beneficiaries with the outcomes of our research.

Workshop Application

This early working group meeting aims at inviting scholars to present and discuss legal and policy frameworks with particular consideration of human rights aspects on the consequences that climate change has for people and migrants in particular.

Possible themes of research in this workshop are – but not limited to – identifying the impacts of climate change to vulnerable states, the implications for and status of indigenous people, the legal status of those migrated due to climate change, community-based initiatives, climate change impacts on human rights such as access to food and water, relation of climate change induced migration with international and human security.
Therefore, we invite scholars from different disciplines to present expert papers on policy and legal frameworks for managing migration or potential migration resulting from climate change at all levels (national, regional and international level). Representatives from NGOs, government, and administration are also welcome to participate.

This workshop is a two half day scholarly event consisting of scholarly papers and discussion on human rights, climate change and migration. This workshop will aim to have an associated output most likely a themed issue of a peer-reviewed academic journal.

Organizers:
This Workshop is funded by the COST Action IS1101 Climate Change and Migration: Knowledge, Law and Policy, and Theory
http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1101?management

Travel and Accomodation will be covered for those participants and paper givers that have been accepted to the workshop

Deadline for Application:
As soon as possible

Please respond and send your application to:

Send 1-2 pages (max) proposal to both organizers of the workshop
Anja Mihr, SIM, Utrecht University, The Netherlands A.Mihr@uu.nl
Dimitra Manou, University of Thessaloniki, Greece dimj@law.auth.gr

Applicants will be notified no later than the end of July whether they can participate in the workshop.

 

Call for Papers: Children and War: Past and Present

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Call for Papers: Children and War: Past and Present

Second international multidisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Salzburg, Austria, on 10-12 July 2013

Organized by the University of Salzburg and the University of Wolverhampton, in association with the United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.

This conference is planned as a follow-up to the first conference, which took place at the University of Salzburg in 2010. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated, and also open up new fields of academic enquiry.

All research proposals (including panel proposals) which focus on a topic and theme related to ‘Children and War’ are welcome, ranging from the experience of war, flight, displacement and resettlement, to relief, rehabilitation and reintegration work, gender issues, persecution, trafficking, sexual violence, trauma and amnesia, the trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory, educational issues, films and documentaries, artistic and literary approaches, remembrance and memorials, and questions of theory and methodology. Specific conference themes anticipated are:
- Children as victims, witnesses and participants in armed conflict
- Holocaust, genocide and forced labour
- Deportation and displacement, refugees and asylum seekers
- War crimes, trials and human rights

A special focus will be on the ‘Changing nature of armed conflict and its impact on children’. In the past two decades, UN reports, including the 1996 study by Graça Machel and its 10-year review, noted with concern that the character and tactics of armed conflict are changing, creating new and unprecedented threats to children. Characteristics of the changing nature of warfare include the blurring of lines between military and civilian targets, the use of new technologies and the absence of clear battlefields and identifiable opponents. Extensive research is needed to deal with challenges emerging from this context, including the use of children as suicide bombers, the deliberate targeting of traditional safe havens such as schools and hospitals, the detention and prosecution of children associated with armed groups, and terrorism and the use of counter-terrorism measures ( for more information, please see the ‘Note by OSRSG-CAAC’ on our web site: http://wlv.ac.uk/childrenandwar2013 ).

Please send an abstract of 200-250 words, together with biographical background information of 50-100 words by **31 July 2012** to: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk. All proposals are subject to a review process. Successful candidates will be informed in October 2012 and will be asked to send in their papers by the end of April 2013 for distribution among conference participants on a CD. Further information will be made available in due time. The organizers intend to publish a selection of conference papers.

Conference language: English.

Fee for speakers: EUR 150. The fee includes admission to all panels, lunches, coffee and tea, and evening events.

Participants need to secure their own funding to participate in this conference. Depending on the outcome of applications, a limited number of grants to contribute to travel and accommodation costs will be made available for delegates unable to obtain own funding. As these grants will be on a refund-only basis after the conference, delegates are still required to pay the fee, travel and accommodation costs in the first instance.

The organising team: Wolfgang Aschauer (Salzburg), John Buckley (Wolverhampton), Helga Embacher (Salzburg), Darek Galasinski (Wolverhampton), Albert Lichtblau (Salzburg), Grazia Prontera (Salzburg), and Johannes-Dieter Steinert (Wolverhampton).

http://wlv.ac.uk/childrenandwar2013

ToC: International Journal of Transitional Justice Table of Contents

International Journal of Transitional Justice

The latest Table of Contents alert for the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Vol. 6, No. 2 (July 2012), has just been published by Oxford Journals.

Further details of the articles included are detailed as follows:

Editorial Note

Editorial Note: When Transitional Justice Is Not Enough
Helen Chang Mack and Mónica Segura Leonardo
IJTJ 2012 6: 175-181
[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Articles

A Carnival of Truth? Knowledge, Ignorance and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Matt James
IJTJ 2012 6: 182-204
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Advancing Feminist Positioning in the Field of Transitional Justice
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
IJTJ 2012 6: 205-228
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Constructions of Legitimacy: The Charles Taylor Trial
Marlies Glasius and Tim Meijers
IJTJ 2012 6: 229-252
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Root and Branch: Discourses of ‘Tradition’ in Grassroots Transitional Justice
Andrew R. Iliff
IJTJ 2012 6: 253-273
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Expanding DDR: The Transformative Role of Former Prisoners in Community-Based Reintegration in Northern Ireland
Clare D. Dwyer
IJTJ 2012 6: 274-295
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Can Civil Society Reclaim Truth? Results from a Community-Based Truth and Reconciliation Commission
David K. Androff, Jr
IJTJ 2012 6: 296-317
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Notes from the Field

Beyond Conventional Transitional Justice: Egypt’s 2011 Revolution and the Absence of Political Will
Reem Abou-El-Fadl
IJTJ 2012 6: 318-330
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Hopes and Uncertainties: Liberia’s Journey to End Impunity
Aaron Weah
IJTJ 2012 6: 331-343
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Truth in the Time of Fear: Adiós, Ayacucho‘s Poetics of Memory and the Peruvian Transitional Justice Process
Felipe Cala Buendía
IJTJ 2012 6: 344-354
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Burundi’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: How to Shed Light on the Past while Standing in the Dark Shadow of Politics?
Stef Vandeginste
IJTJ 2012 6: 355-365
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Review Essays

Accountable Judges and Their Role in Prosecuting Serious Violations of Human Rights
Iyiola Solanke
IJTJ 2012 6: 366-373
[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Foregrounding the ‘Local’: Place-based Approaches to Transitional Justice
Christian M. De Vos and Sara Kendall
IJTJ 2012 6: 374-382
[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Books Received

Books Received
IJTJ 2012 6: 383-384
[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]