Gender and Transitional Justice

<p><em>Gender and Transitional Justice</em> provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often presented as a UN success story the author demonstrates that in spite of women and children’s rights programmes of the UN and other donors justice for women has deteriorated in post-conflict Timor and violence has remained a constant in their lives.</p><p>This book provides a gendered analysis of transitional justice as a discipline. It is also one of the first studies to offer a comprehensive case study of how women engaged in the whole range of transitional mechanisms in a post-conflict state i.e. domestic trials internationalised trials and truth commissions. The book reveals the political dynamics in a post-conflict setting around gender and questions of justice and reframes of the meanings of success and failure of international interventions in the light of them. </p>