After oppression : transitional justice in Latin America and Eastern Europe / edited by Vesselin Popovski and Mónica Serrano.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transitional justice across continents / Vesselin Popovski and Mónica Serrano -- Models of accountability and the effectiveness of transitional justice / Kathryn Sikkink -- Accountability, the rule of law and transitional justice in Latin America / Pilar Domingo -- "The past is never dead" : accountability and justice for past human rights violations in Argentina / Catalina Smulovitz -- The paradox of accountability in Brazil / James L. Cavallaro and Fernando Delgado -- The unlikely outcome : transitional justice in Chile, 1990-2008 / Claudio Fuentes -- Transitional justice without a compass : paramilitary demobilization in Colombia / Elvira María Restrepo -- El Salvador : the peace process and transitional justice / Ricardo Córdova Macías and Nayelly Loya Marín -- Transitional justice in Guatemala / Carmen Rosa de León Escribano and María Patricia González Chávez -- Transitional justice and democratic consolidation : the Peruvian experience / Carlos Basombrío Iglesias -- On the effectiveness of judicial accountability mechanisms in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Ernesto Kiza -- Justice and accountability mechanisms in Bulgaria in the transition period (1989-2008) / Hristo Hristov and Alexander Kashumov -- After the fall of the Berlin Wall : transitional justice in Germany / Gerhard Werle and Moritz Vormbaum -- Lustration as a trust-building mechanism? : transitional justice in Poland / Monkia Nalepa -- Neither forgiving nor punishing? : evaluating transitional justice in Romania / Lavinia Stan -- From Velvet Revolution to velvet justice : the case of Slovakia / Nadya Nedelsky -- Accountability for Communist crimes and restitution for victims in Slovenia / Mitja Steinbacher, Matjaž Steinbacher and Matej Steinbacher -- Transitional justice : reframing the debate / Alexandra Barahona de Brito and Laurence Whitehead -- Transitional justice and democratic consolidation / Mónica Serrano -- The complexity and effectiveness of transitional justice in Latin America and Eastern Europe / Vesselin Popovski.