Just Peace After Conflict Jus Post Bellum and the Justice of Peace

by Stahn, Carsten; Iverson, Jens

• ISBN13: 9780198823285
• ISBN10: 0198823282
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-11-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Carsten Stahn, Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice, Leiden University, Jens Iverson, Leiden University, Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Jennifer Easterday, Executive Director, JustPeace Labs

Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at Leiden University and Program Director of the Grotius Centre. He is the author of The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administration: Versailles to Iraq and Beyond. He has published articles on international criminal law and transitional justice in leading international journals (American Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Law, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Harvard International Law Journal), and edited several collections of essays in the field.

Jens Iverson is a Researcher for the Jus Post Bellum project and an attorney specializing in public international law. A member of the California Bar, the Thurston Society, and the Order of the Coif, he received his Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of California, Hastings, and his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University. He has worked with the Cambodian Genocide Program, the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court. As the co-founder of a human rights clinic, he helped represent the former Prime Minister of Haiti in a successful petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that ultimately resulted in a landmark ruling requiring Haitian prison reform. He has practiced at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on both the Popovic et al and Prlic et al cases.


Jennifer Easterday is a Researcher for the Jus Post Bellum project. She is also an international justice consultant and a Trial Monitor for the Open Society Justice Initiative. She previously worked for International Criminal Law Services, an NGO based in The Hague, on a variety of international criminal law capacity-building projects in domestic jurisdictions in the former Yugoslavia and Africa. She has also worked as a Senior Researcher and Trial Monitor for the UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, researching and monitoring the Special Court for Sierra Leone trial of Charles Taylor. She has experience at the ICTY and with other international criminal law and human rights NGOs in the United States and Latin America. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and is a member of the California State Bar.

Table of Contents

Part I: Jus Post Bellum and Conceptions of Peace
1. Roots and Branches: The Past and Future of Jus Post Bellum, Brian Orend
2. Jus Post Bellum and the Nature of Peace, Lonneke Peperkamp
3. Jus Post Bellum and Imperfect Peace: UN Peacemaking Rules and Practice, Martin Wahlisch
Part II: Macro Principles
4. Jus Post Bellum and Proportionality, Michael Newton
5. Rebuilding and Transformation: The Democratic Peace Hypothesis and Jus Post Bellum, Jens Iverson
6. Reconciliation and a Just Peace, James Gallen
7. Jus Post Bellum and Reparation, Cymie Payne
8. Mapping an International Norm of Inclusion in Jus Post Bellum, Catherine Turner
Part III: Peace And Security
9. Interplay Between 'Peacetime Law' and Laws of Armed Conflict: Implications for Peacebuilding, Dieter Fleck
10. Robust Peacekeeping Mandates and Jus Post Bellum, Marco Longobardo
11. Geneva, Impact of Mediators on Jus Post Bellum, Patrick Wall
Part IV: Protection of Persons and Public Goods
12. Jus Post Bellum and Protection of Indigenous Peoples, Britta Sjostedt
13. Jus Post Bellum of Illegally Implanted Settler Populations, Eugene Kontorovich
14. Right to Land, Housing and Property, Elisenda Calvet and Aitor Diaz
Part V: Rule Of Law Reform & Practice (Justice Sector Reform, Vetting, and Institution Building)
15. Village Justice and the Rule of Law, Maj Lervad Grasten
16. Vetting - The Missing Link?, Alexander Mayer-Rieckh
17. Norm Persistence in Distributive Justice, Michael Pugh
Part VI: Accountability
18. The Tension Between Individual and Collective Responsibility in Accountability Responses, Carsten Stahn
19. Accountability and Discursive Justice, Timothy Webster
20. Accountability and Inclusion, Jennifer Easterday