This paper examines the current security-governance-development nexus, something that is often also discussed under the concept of "transitional justice" (TJ). The paper analyses how the ambiguous, evolving and expanding nature of the concept of TJ affects the planning, coordination, evaluation...

The article provides a critical analysis of what it calls the ‘ESC rights thesis' as advanced by Louise Arbour in a much-noticed paper published in 2007 – the claim that economic, social and cultural rights (such as the right to food, housing, healthcare, education) should be treated as an...

Considerable progress has been made in the field of transitional justice in recent years, signified by such landmarks as a permanent international criminal court. Unaddressed aspects of transition remain, however, which need serious attention if peace is to be sustainable in the long term....