This book provides crucial insights both into how practices and beliefs of sorcery and witchcraft are playing out in contemporary Melanesia, and the types of interventions.

What was the legal basis for identifying and detaining subjects, determining who should be prosecuted, collecting evidence, and granting clemency after conviction?

This book takes up this crucial contemporary issue in the study of war and peace by examining fifteen intrastate conflicts in the Asia-Pacific.

The Dynamics of Transitional Justice draws on the case of East Timor in order to reassess how transitional justice mechanisms actually play out at the local level.