Originally published: Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The politics of transitional justice -- Inclusive justice: the limitations of trial justice and truth commissions -- Prosecute or pardon? Between truth commissions and war crimes trials -- Gender and truth reconciliation commissions: comparative reflections -- Transitional justice, democratisation and the rule of law -- South Africa's truth and Reconciliation Commission from a global perspective -- Reflecting on the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a peacebuilding perspective -- Peace versus justice? A view from Nigeria -- A path to peace and justice: Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission in retrospect -- Peace and justice: Mozambique and Sierra Leone compared -- Sierra Leone's 'not-so' special court -- Charles Taylor, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and international politics -- The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda: reconciling for acquitted -- The politics of peace, justice and healing in post-war Mozambique: 'practices of rupture' by Magamba spirits and healers in Gorongosa -- Indigenous justice or political instrument? The modern Gacaca courts of Rwanda -- The International Criminal Court African experiment: the Central African Republic, Darfur, Northern Uganda and The Democratic Republic of the Congo -- The International Criminal Court in Darfur.