The book shows how transitional justice experiences influence domestic change and what the role of the international community in these processes is. It is divided into three thematic parts. The first one presents regional and local transitional justice efforts, aiming at showing different mechanisms implemented within transitional justice mechanisms. The following part deals with the role and impact of international criminal tribunals set up to prosecute grave human rights abuses. The third part is devoted to the role of the international community in mass atrocity crimes prevention. The contributions prove that transitional justice measures are not universal. Rather, they must be characterized by the principle of local ownership and be crafted to circumstances on the ground.

Contents: Patrick Wegner: Regional and Local Perceptions of Justice and their Impact on International Investigations - Allan Rutambo Ngari: Dealing with the Legacy of Mass Atrocities in the Great Lakes - Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Jan Hofmeyr: Restorative Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its Deferred Promise - Anna Grzywacz: Transitional Justice in East Timor: Timorese Political Pragmatism and its Effectiveness - Gjylbehare Bella Murati: A Surrogate State's Approach to Transitional Justice. The Kosovo Experience - Klaus Bachmann: The Loathed Tribunal. Public Opinion in Serbia Toward the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - Ana Ljubojevic: The Vukovar and Ovcara Trials and Their Influence on Popular Narratives about the War in Croatia and Serbia - Allan Rutambo Ngari: Foreign Judicial Intervention and the Media - The Case of the ICC and Kenya - Patrycja Grzebyk: International Tribunals' Selective Justice towards African States - Isabelle Tallec: The Role of International Criminal Justice in French Foreign Policy - Agnieszka Bienczyk-Missala: Early Warning and the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes: The Role of the United Nations - Dorota Heidrich: Responsibility to Protect - a Tool for Atrocity Crimes Prevention?