Restoring Justice after Large-scale Violent Conflicts

Ivo Aertsen, Jana Arsovska, Holger-C Rohne, Marta Valiñas, Kris Vanspauwen

• Contents Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Part I – Introduction 1 Challenging restorative justice – State-based conflict, mass victimisation and the changing nature of warfare, Holger-C. Rohne, Jana Arsovska and Ivo Aertsen 2 Dealing with violent conflicts and mass victimisation. A human dignity approach, Finn Tschudi Part II – Case studies Section 1 The Kosovo conflict 3 Prologue to the Kosovo drama: origin, causes and consequences of a violent ethno-political conflict, Jana Arsovska, Marta Valiñas and Borbala Fellegi 4 Criminal judicial qualification and prosecution in the Racak case according to national and international legislation - Albanian perspective, Haki Demolli 5 Criminological views and informal responses to the Racak massacre according to the Albanian customary law and principles of international law - Albanian perspective, Rexhep Gashi 6 Potential for the use of informal mechanisms and responses to the Kosovo conflict - Serbian perspective, Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic 7 A restorative approach for dealing with the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict – Opportunities and Limits, Marta Valiñas and Jana Arsovska Section 2 – The Israeli-Palestinian conflict 8 The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the second intifada – A cycle of violence, Holger-C. Rohne 9 Courting the Intifada: discussing legal perspectives, Khalid Ghanayim 10 Israeli-Jewish cultural aspects of an event of violence: between biblical codes and Zionist ideology - Israeli perspective, Michal Alberstein 11 Cultural aspects in responding to violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Palestinian perspective, George Irani 12 Opportunities and limits for applying restorative justice in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Holger-C. Rohne Section 3 – The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo 13 The conflict in the DRC: a story of failed transitions and interlocking conflicts, Tyrone Savage and Kris Vanspauwen 14 Decayed, decimated, usurped and inadequate: the challenge of finding justice through formal mechanisms in the Congo, Tyrone Savage and Olivier Kambala 15 Between peace and justice: informal mechanisms in the DRC, Theodore Kamwimbi 16 Restorative justice and truth-seeking in the DRC. Much closing for peace, little opening for justice, Kris Vanspauwen and Tyrone Savage Part III – Conclusion 17 Racak, Mahane Yehuda and Nyabyondo: restorative justice between the formal and the informal, Ivo Aertsen 18 From micro to macro, from individual to state: restorative justice and multi-level diplomacy in divided societies, Jana Arsovska, Marta Valiñas and Kris Vanspauwen Index