From the Back Cover
This huge encyclopedia, with more than 300 entries by distinguished experts from around the world on all relevant topics, is a superb resource for scholars, students, and others interested in questions of historical memory, transitional justice, and archival openness in former dictatorships. The editors, Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, who are among the world's foremost authorities on these topics, deserve immense credit for compiling such a wide-ranging, fascinating set of volumes. It is a truly remarkable accomplishment and will be of enduring value. Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Program, Harvard University
The phenomenon described as "the third wave of democratization" has posed for scores of societies and states the problem of crime, punishment and conciliation in the wake of the downfall of dictatorial regimes from the Philippines to Poland and Chile. The pursuit and trials of World War Two criminals together with their collaborators as well as those who in recent decades carried out ethnic purges in the Balkans and Africa are being continued. The conception of an Encyclopaedia of Transitional Justice has arrived, therefore, at a suitable moment and its realisation, achieved thanks to the initiative, energy and ingenuity of Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, is an unquestionable success. More than 165 authors from the whole world present in over 300 entries the theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of settling accounts in scores of countries on all continents. The publication predominantly recapitulates heretofore research while simultaneously assisting in the creation of a catalogue of still unresolved issues. An important, valuable and fascinating undertaking. Andrzej Paczkowski, Chairman of the Council, Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw
About the Author
The encyclopedia editors are Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky.
Lavinia Stan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. She is regional editor for Europe for the peer-reviewed Women's Studies International Forum (since 2010), a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of Romania Exile (in Bucharest, since 2010), a former member of the Social Science Adjudicating Commission of the Romanian Ministry of Education (in Bucharest, 2011-2012) and a member of the editorial boards of eleven scholarly journals in Europe. Her books include Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe (co-authored with Lucian Turcescu), 1989-2009: Incredibila aventura a democratiei dupa comunism (co-edited with Lucian Turcescu), Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Reckoning with the Communist Past, Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania (co-authored with Lucian Turcescu), Leaders and Laggards: Governance, Civicness and Ethnicity in Post-Communist Romania and Romania in Transition. . Nadya Nedelsky is an Associate Professor of International Studies at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is author of Defining the Sovereign Community: National Identity, Individual Rights, and Minority Membership in the Czech and Slovak Republics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, in the Penn Press series on Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Citizenship); chapters in edited volumes on transitional justice; and numerous peer-reviewed articles on nationalism and the politics of the past.
