Justice During and After Conflict (M6045)

15 credits, Level 6

Spring teaching

Transitional justice broadly covers the many forms of accountability that have been developed to address mass atrocities during and after conflict.

Examples of this are:

  • criminal trials before international criminal courts and domestic courts
  • customary collective reconciliation processes (e.g. Gacaca trials in Rwanda)
  • Truth Commissions (e.g. South Africa)
  • Peoples’ Tribunals (e.g. Uighur Tribunal, London) or fact-finding commissions (e.g. Int Commission for Syria).

On this module, you'll develop your knowledge and understanding of:

  • relevant substantive crimes (i.e. conceptually in law)
  • relevant institutional processes
  • the academic literature within the field of transitional justice studies (as broadly understood).

There will be topics within the module that may be more heavily drawn from either transitional justice or international criminal law fields or both.

Teaching

18%: Lecture
82%: Seminar

Assessment

50%: Coursework (Group presentation, Observation)
50%: Written assessment (Essay)

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 21 hours of contact time and about 129 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses: