Publications


A list of publications on transitional justice by members of the TJET Team:

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

  • Kathryn Sikkink, Douglas A. Johnson, Phuong N. Pham, and Patrick Vinck, “A Critical Assessment of Colombia’s Reparations Policies in the Context of the Peace Process,” in Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective, ed. Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache, and Caroline Elkins (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), 119–36, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1f45q96.12.

2020

  • Abdulrazzaq Al-Saiedi, Kevin Coughlin, Muslih Irwani, Waad Ibrahim Khalil, Phuong N. Pham, and Patrick Vinck, “Never Forget: Views on Peace and Justice Within Conflict-Affected Communities in Northern Iraq,” research report (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, 2020).
  • Geoff Dancy, Yvonne Marie Dutton, Tessa Alleblas, and Eamon Aloyo, “What Determines Perceptions of Bias Toward the International Criminal Court? Evidence from Kenya,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 64, no. 7-8 (2020): 1443–69, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002719893740.
  • Phuong N Pham, Mychelle Balthazard, and Patrick Vinck, “Assessment of Efforts to Hold Perpetrators of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Accountable in Central African Republic,” Journal of International Criminal Justice 18, no. 2 (2020): 373–96, https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqaa009.
  • Patrick Vinck and Phuong N Pham, “Localizing Outreach,” in The International Criminal Court: Contemporary Challenges and Reform Proposals, ed. Richard H Steinberg (Brill Nijhoff, 2020), 65–70.

2019

  • Geoff Dancy, “Achieving an Unpopular Balance: Colombian Post-Conflict Justice and Amnesty in Comparative Perspective,” in As War Ends: What Colombia Can Tell Us about the Sustainability of Peace and Transitional Justice, ed. James Meernik, Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt, and Mauricio and Uribe-López (Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 325–46, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614856.015.
  • Geoff Dancy, Bridget E. Marchesi, Tricia D. Olsen, Leigh A. Payne, Andrew G. Reiter, and Kathryn Sikkink, “Behind Bars and Bargains: New Findings on Transitional Justice in Emerging Democracies,” International Studies Quarterly 63, no. 1 (2019): 99–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqy053.
  • Phuong N Pham, Niamh Gibbons, and Patrick Vinck, “A Framework for Assessing Political Will in Transitional Justice Contexts,” The International Journal of Human Rights 23, no. 6 (2019): 993–1009, https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2019.1579712.
  • Phuong Pham, Niamh Gibbons, Jana Katharina Denkinger, Florian Junne, and Patrick Vinck, “Justice Not Forgiveness: Perspectives on Justice and Reconciliation Among Yazidi Women Refugees in Germany,” Journal of Human Rights Practice 11, no. 3 (2019): 530–53, https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huz037.
  • Phuong Pham, Niamh Gibbons, Mychelle Balthazard, and Patrick Vinck, “The Nexus of Memory, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation in Cambodia,” International Review of the Red Cross 101, no. 910 (2019): 125–49, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1816383119000213.
  • Patrick Vinck, “Transitional Justice in the Age of Social Media,” International Journal of Transitional Justice 13, no. 1 (2019): 105–12, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijy034.
  • Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, Transitional Justice from State to Civil Society: Democratization in Indonesia (London: Routledge, 2019), https://www.routledge.com/Transitional-Justice-from-State-to-Civil-Society-Democratization-in-Indonesia/Lestari-Wahyuningroem/p/book/9781032084558.
  • Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, “Towards Post-Transitional Justice: The Failures of Transitional Justice and the Roles of Civil Society in Indonesia,” Journal of Southeast Asian Human Rights 3, no. 1 (June 2019): 124–54, https://doi.org/10.19184/jseahr.v3i1.11497.

2018

  • Geoff Dancy, “Deals with the Devil? Conflict Amnesties, Civil War, and Sustainable Peace,” International Organization 72, no. 2 (2018): 387–421, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020818318000012.
  • Geoff Dancy and Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, “The Impact of Criminal Prosecutions During Intrastate Conflict,” Journal of Peace Research 55, no. 1 (2018): 47–61, https://doi.org/10.1177/002234331773261.
  • Patrick Vinck, Anne Bennett, and Jacobo Quintanilla, “Engaging with People Affected by Armed Conflicts and Other Situations of Violence – Taking Stock. Mapping Trends. Looking Ahead. Recommendations for Humanitarian Organizations and Donors in the Digital Era,” research report (Cambridge, MA: International Committee of Red Cross & Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, 2018).
  • Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, “Installing Justice: Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Indonesia,” in Civil Society in the Global South, ed. Palash Kamruzzaman (London: Routledge, 2018), 158–75, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315113579-10/.
  • Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, “Working from the Margins: Initiatives for Truth and Reconciliation for Victims of the 1965 Mass Violence in Solo and Palu,” in The Indonesian Genocide of 1965: Causes, Dynamics and Legacies, ed. Katharine McGregor, Jess Melvin, and Annie Pohlman (Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018), 335–56, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71455-4_17.

2017

  • Mark S. Berlin and Geoff Dancy, “The Difference Law Makes: Domestic Atrocity Laws and Human Rights Prosecutions,” Law & Society Review 51, no. 3 (2017): 533–66, https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12277.
  • Phuong N Pham, Niamh Gibbons, and Patrick Vinck, “The United Nations Material Assistance to Survivors of Cholera in Haiti: Consulting Survivors and Rebuilding Trust,” PLoS Currents 9 (2017), https://doi.org/10.1371/currents.dis.1b01af244fe3d76d6a7013e2f1e3944d.
  • Patrick Vinck, Phuong N Pham, Mychelle Balthazard, and Magbe AS, “Peace, Justice and Security Polls – Central African Republic,” research report, Central African Republic (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative & United Nations Development Program, n.d.), http://www.peacebuildingdata.org/research/car.

2016

  • Geoff Dancy and Verónica Michel, “Human Rights Enforcement from Below: Private Actors and Prosecutorial Momentum in Latin America and Europe,” International Studies Quarterly 60, no. 1 (2016): 173–88, https://doi.org/10.1111/isqu.12209.
  • Phuong Ngoc Pham, Patrick Vinck, Bridget Marchesi, Doug Johnson, Peter J. Dixon, and Kathryn Sikkink, “Evaluating Transitional Justice: The Role of Multi-Level Mixed Methods Datasets and the Colombia Reparation Program for War Victims,” Transitional Justice Review 1, no. 4 (2016): 60–94, https://doi.org/10.5206/tjr.2016.1.4.3.

2015

  • Geoff Dancy and Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, “Timing, Sequencing, and Transitional Justice Impact: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Latin America,” Human Rights Review 16, no. 4 (2015): 321–42, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-015-0374-2.
  • Geoff Dancy and Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, “Bridge to Human Development or Vehicle of Inequality? Transitional Justice and Economic Structures,” International Journal of Transitional Justice 9, no. 1 (2015): 51–69, https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/iju024.
  • Patrick Vinck, Phuong N Pham, and Tino Kreutzer, “Peacebuilding and Reconstruction Polls – Democratic Republic of the Congo,” research report, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative & United Nations Development Program, n.d.), http://www.peacebuildingdata.org/research/drc.

2014

  • Phuong N Pham and Patrick Vinck, “Fragile Peace, Elusive Justice: Population-Based Survey on Perceptions and Attitudes about Security and Justice in Abidjan, Côte d’ivoire,” research report (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, n.d.).
  • Patrick Vinck and Phuong N Pham, “Consulting Survivors,” in The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and Its Discontents, ed. Steve J Stern and Scott Straus (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), 107–24.
  • Vinck and Pham.

2013

  • Nadine Kirchenbauer, Mychelle Balthazard, Latt Ky, Patrick Vinck, and Phuong Pham, “Victims Participation Before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Baseline Study of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association’s Civil Party Scheme for Case 002,” research report (Phnom Penh & Cambridge, MA: Cambodian Human Rights; Development Association (ADHOC) & Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, 2013).
  • Verónica Michel and Kathryn Sikkink, “Human Rights Prosecutions and the Participation Rights of Victims in Latin America,” Law & Society Review 47, no. 4 (2013): 873–907, https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12040.
  • Kathryn Sikkink and Hun Joon Kim, “The Justice Cascade: The Origins and Effectiveness of Prosecutions of Human Rights Violations,” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 9, no. 1 (2013): 269–85, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102612-133956.
  • Kathryn Sikkink, “Models of Accountability and the Effectiveness of Transitional Justice,” in After Oppression: Transitional Justice in Latin America and Eastern Europe, ed. Vesselin Popovski and Mónica Serrano (New York, NY: United Nations, 2013), 19–38, https://doi.org/10.18356/c15650fa-en.
  • Phuong N Pham and Patrick Vinck, “Cambodia,” in Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, ed. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, vol. 2 (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 86–93.
  • Patrick Vinck and Phuong N Pham, “Democratic Republic of the Congo,” in Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, ed. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, vol. 2 (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 113–19.
  • Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, “Seducing for Truth and Justice: Civil Society Initiatives for the 1965 Mass Violence in Indonesia,” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs 32, no. 3 (2013): 115–42, https://doi.org/full/10.1177/186810341303200306.

2012

  • Hun Joon Kim and Kathryn Sikkink, “How Do Human Rights Prosecutions Improve Human Rights After Transition?” Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law 7, no. 1 (2012): 69–90.

2011

  • Geoff Dancy and Kathryn Sikkink, “Induced Enforcement: Treaty Ratification and Domestic Human Rights Prosecutions” (Paper presented at the "From Rights to Reality" conference, New York University Law School, October 14, October 14, 2011).
  • Geoff Dancy, “Choice and Consequence in Strategies of Transitional Justice,” in The Handbook on the Political Economy of War, ed. Christopher J. Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers (Chaltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2011), 397–431.
  • Phuong Pham, Patrick Vinck, Mychelle Balthazard, Michelle Arévalo-Carpenter, and Sokhom Hean, “Dealing with the Khmer Rouge Heritage,” Peace Review 23, no. 4 (2011): 456–61, https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2011.625818.
  • Phuong N Pham, Patrick Vinck, Mychelle Balthazard, Judith Strasser, and Chariya Om, “Victim Participation and the Trial of Duch at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia,” Journal of Human Rights Practice 3, no. 3 (2011): 264–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/hur022.
  • Phuong Pham, Patrick Vinck, Mychelle Balthazard, and Sokhom Hean, “After the First Trial: A Population-Based Survey on Knowledge and Perceptions of Justice and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia,” research report (Berkeley, CA: Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, May 2011).
  • Kathryn Sikkink, “El Efecto Disuasivo de Los Juicios Por Violaciones de Derechos Humanos,” Anuario de Derechos Humanos (Universidad de Chile. Centro de Derechos Humanos), no. 7 (2011): 41–61, https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-2058.2011.16995.
  • Kathryn Sikkink, The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2011).
  • Patrick Vinck, Phuong Pham, and Tino Kreutzer, “Talking Peace: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Security, Dispute Resolution, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Liberia,” research report (Berkeley, CA: Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, June 2011).

2010

  • Geoff Dancy, “Impact Assessment, Not Evaluation: Defining a Limited Role for Positivism in the Study of Transitional Justice,” International Journal of Transitional Justice 4, no. 3 (2010): 355–76, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijq016.
  • Geoff Dancy, Hunjoon Kim, and Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, “The Turn to Truth: Trends in Truth Commission Experimentation,” Journal of Human Rights 9, no. 1 (2010): 45–64, https://doi.org/10.1080/14754830903530326.
  • Hunjoon Kim and Kathryn Sikkink, “Explaining the Deterrence Effect of Human Rights Prosecutions for Transitional Countries,” International Studies Quarterly 54, no. 4 (2010): 939–63, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2010.00621.x.
  • Phuong Ngoc Pham, Patrick Vinck, DK Kinkodi, and Harvey M Weinstein, “Human Rights, Transitional Justice, Public Health and Social Reconstruction,” Social Science & Medicine 70, no. 1 (2010): 98–105, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.09.039.
  • Phuong Pham and Patrick Vinck, “Transitioning to Peace: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Social Reconstruction and Justice in Northern Uganda,” research report (Berkeley, CA: Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, December 2010).
  • Oskar N T Thoms, James Ron, and Roland Paris, “State-Level Effects of Transitional Justice: What Do We Know?” International Journal of Transitional Justice 4, no. 3 (November 1, 2010): 329–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijq012.
  • Patrick Vinck and Phuong N Pham, “Outreach Evaluation: The International Criminal Court in the Central African Republic,” International Journal of Transitional Justice 4, no. 3 (2010): 421–42, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijq014.
  • Patrick Vinck and Phuong Pham, “Building Peace, Seeking Justice: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Accountability and Social Reconstruction in the Central African Republic,” research report (Berkeley, CA: Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, August 3, 2010).
  • Harvey M Weinstein, Laurel E Fletcher, Patrick Vinck, and Phuong N Pham, “Stay the Hand of Justice: Whose Priorities Take Priority?” in Localizing Transitional Justice: Interventions and Priorities After Mass Violence, ed. Rosalind Shaw, Lars Waldorf, and Pierre Hazan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010), 27–48.

2009

  • Kathryn Sikkink, “From State Responsibility to Individual Criminal Accountability: A New Regulatory Model for Core Human Rights Violations,” in The Politics of Global Regulation, ed. Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), 121–50, https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400830732.121.
  • Phuong Pham, Patrick Vinck, Mychelle Balthazard, Sokhom Hean, and Eric Stover, “So We Will Never Forget: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Social Reconstruction and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia,” research report (Berkeley, CA: Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, January 2009).

2008

  • Kathryn Sikkink, “From Pariah State to Global Protagonist: Argentina and the Struggle for International Human Rights,” Latin American Politics and Society 50, no. 1 (2008): 1–29, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2008.00002.x.
  • Kathryn Sikkink and Carrie Booth Walling, “La Cascada de Justicia y El Impacto de Los Juicios de Derechos Humanos En América Latina,” Cuadernos Del CLAEH 31, no. 96/97 (2008): 15–40.
  • Eric Stover, Miranda Sissons, Phuong Pham, and Patrick Vinck, “Justice on Hold: Accountability and Social Reconstruction in Iraq,” International Review of the Red Cross 90, no. 869 (2008): 5–28, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1816383108000064.
  • Oskar N T Thoms, James Ron, and Roland Paris, “The Effects of Transitional Justice Mechanisms: A Summary of Empirical Research Findings and Implications for Analysts and Practitioners” (Working paper, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, 2008).
  • Patrick Vinck and Phuong Pham, “Ownership and Participation in Transitional Justice Mechanisms: A Sustainable Human Development Perspective from Eastern DRC,” International Journal of Transitional Justice 2, no. 3 (2008): 398–411, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijn033.
  • Patrick Vinck, Phuong Pham, Suliman Baldo, and Rachel Shigekhane, “Living with Fear: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Peace, Justice and Social Reconstruction in Eastern Congo,” research report (Berkeley, CA & New Orleans & New York: Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley & Payson Center for International Development, Tulane University & International Center for Transitional Justice, August 19, 2008).

2007

  • Phuong Pham and Patrick Vinck, “Empirical Research and the Development and Assessment of Transitional Justice Mechanisms,” International Journal of Transitional Justice 1, no. 2 (2007): 231–48, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijm017.
  • Phuong Pham, Patrick Vinck, Eric Stover, A Moss, and M Wierda, “When the War Ends: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Peace, Justice, and Social Reconstruction in Northern Uganda,” research report (Berkeley, CA & New Orleans & New York: Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley & Payson Center for International Development, Tulane University & International Center for Transitional Justice, December 1, 2007).
  • Kathryn Sikkink and Carrie Booth Walling, “The Impact of Human Rights Trials in Latin America,” Journal of Peace Research 44, no. 4 (2007): 427–45, https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343307078953.

2006

  • Kathryn Sikkink and Carrie Booth Walling, “Argentina’s Contribution to Global Trends in Transitional Justice,” in Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth Versus Justice, ed. Naomi Roht-Arriaza and Javier Mariezcurrena (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 301–24, https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511617911.015.

2005

  • Phuong Pham, Patrick Vinck, M Wierda, Eric Stover, and A di Giovanni, “Forgotten Voices: A Population-Based Survey of Attitudes about Peace and Justice in Northern Uganda,” research report (New York, NY & Berkeley, CA: International Center for Transitional Justice & Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, July 2005), http://www.peacebuildingdata.org.

2004

  • Phuong N Pham, Harvey M Weinstein, and Timothy Longman, “Trauma and PTSD Symptoms in Rwanda: Implications for Attitudes Toward Justice and Reconciliation,” JAMA 29, no. 5 (August 2004): 602–12, https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.292.5.602.

2001

  • Ellen Lutz and Kathryn Sikkink, “The Justice Cascade: The Evolution and Impact of Foreign Human Rights Trials in Latin America,” Chicago Journal of International Law 2, no. 1 (2001): 1–33.