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Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies

edited by Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo de Greiff

Social Science Research Council, 2007
Paper: 978-0-9790772-1-0
Library of Congress Classification K3442.J87 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 342.068

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK
Countries emerging from armed conflict or authoritarian rule face difficult questions about what to do with public employees who perpetrated past human rights abuses and the institutional structures that allowed such abuses to happen. Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies, edited by Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo de Greiff, examines the transitional reform known as "

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Alexander Mayer-Rieckh manages the ICTJ’s Security System Reform Program and heads its office in Geneva. He was Chief of the Human Rights Office of the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, worked for the UN in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Timor Leste, and has published articles on post-conflict institutional reform and peacebuilding.

Pablo de Greiff is director of research at the ICTJ. Formerly associate professor of philosophy at SUNY Buffalo and Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University, he is the editor of seven books, most recently The Handbook of Reparations (Oxford University Press, 2006).

REVIEWS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents
Introduction
Roger Duthie
Part I: Case Studies
Chapter 1. Strengthening Democracy: Impugnacion Procedures in Argentina
 Valeria Barbuto
Chapter 2. The Struggle for Lasting Reform: Vetting Processes in El Salvador
Ruben Zamora with David Holiday
Chapter 3. Swift Gradualism and Variable Outcomes: Vetting in Post-authoritarian 
Greece
Dimitri Sotiropoulos
Chapter 4. Institutional Transformation and the Choice Against Vetting in South Africa's 
Transition
Jonathan Klaaren
Chapter 5. Vetting to Prevent Future Abuses: Reforming the Police, Courts and 
Prosecutors' Offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alexander Mayer-Rieckh
Chapter 6. The Politics of the Lustration Law in Poland, 1989-2006
Adam Czarnota
Chapter 7. Lustration as Political Competition: Vetting in Hungary
Elizabeth Barrett, Peter Hack and Agnes Munkacsi
Chapter 8. Oppressors and Their Victims: The Czech Lustration Law and the Rule of 
Law
Jiri Priban
Chapter 9. The Shield, the Sword, and the Party: Vetting the East German Public Sector
Christiane Wilke
Part II: Thematic Studies
Chapter 10. Gathering and Managing Information in Vetting Processes
Serge Rumin
Chapter 11. Due Process and Vetting
Federico Andreu-Guzman
Chapter 12. On Preventing Abuse: Vetting and Other Transitional Reforms
Alexander Mayer-Rieckh
Chapter 13. Vetting and Transitional Justice
Pablo de Greiff
Appendix. Vetting Public Employees in Post-Conflict Settings: Operational Guidelines

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