type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article situates the establishment of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the wider context of the country's transitional period between 1999 and 2004. During this pivotal period, Sierra Leone experienced a massive state-building intervention to establish the rule of...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Based on a case study of the so-called ‘Kafferskraal’ land claim, this article scrutinizes the ongoing land restitution process in post-apartheid South Africa with regard to its capacity to provide a transition towards ‘justice’. After sketching the legal and...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This contribution explores the attempts by international humanitarian agencies and the post-genocide Rwandan state respectively to deal with exceptionality created by the genocide and return to normality. It does so by comparing two kinds of camps that deal with exceptional...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article explores the uneasy co-existence between two different pressing needs in post-apartheid South Africa: the urgency to reform the South African Police and the urgency to address the crime wave. Both imply a logic of exceptionality in that both are perceived to...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>There has been an erosion in the use of ‘labour’ as a key concept of critical reflection in contemporary capitalism. Parallel to this development, there has been a significant debasement of labour rights and the concomitant rise of a discourse that delegitimizes the...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article investigates how far the International Criminal Court (ICC) trial of post-election violence in Kenya represented a new start for Kenyan politics, for international criminal justice in Africa, and for the international response to democratic violence more...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Academic work on transitional justice has tended to focus on the most obvious and institutionalized sites where ideas about justice and transition are discussed or contested, such as truth commissions or international tribunals. Yet, there are many other sites where such...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Since the end of the Cold War, political new beginnings have increasingly been linked to questions of transitional justice. The contributions to this collection examine a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ have been declared...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Adequate sanitation is vital to human health, yet progress on the Millennium Development Goal for sanitation has been slow and the target is likely to be missed by one billion people. Indonesia has the third highest number of people of any country in the world without access...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Migrants to Tanzania's artisanal gold mining sites seek mineral wealth, which is accompanied by high risks of occupational hazards, economic failure, AIDS and social censure from their home communities. Male miners in these settlements compete to attract newly arrived young...</p>