Introduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice 1
4. Part I: The complex relationship between truth and justice
5. 1. Swinging the Pendulum: Fin-de-Siècle Historians in the Courts 21
6. 2. Time, Justice, and Human Rights: Statutory Limitation on the Right to Truth? 37
7. 3. How Truth Recovery Can Benefit from a Conditional Amnesty 56
8. 4. New Epistemologies for Confronting International Crimes: Developing the Information, Dialogue, and Process (IDP) Approach to Transitional Justice 75
9. Part II: The narrative of the trial record
10. 5. The Spark for Genocide? Propaganda and Historical Narratives at International Criminal Tribunals 97
11. 6. The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical Source 118
12. Part III: The afterlife of transitional justice processes
13. 7. Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-Up Reflections on a Postcolonial Setting—The Rawagede Case 149
14. 8. Collective and Competitive Victimhood as Identity in the Former Yugoslavia 175
15. 9. Perpetrator-Victims: How Universal Victimhood in Cambodia Impacts Transitional Justice Measures 194
16. 10. Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh 213
17. Acknowledgments 237
18. Notes on Contributors 239
19. Index 243