Table of Contents

Introduction: Facing Truth, Facing Justice - Ifi Amadiume and Abdullahi An-Na'im
Part I: Social Justice
1.Memory, Truth and Healing - Wole Soyinka
2.The Politics of Memory: Biafra and Intellectual Responsibility - Ifi Amadiume
3.Biafran War Literature and Africa's Search for Social Justice - Akachi Ezeigbo

Part II: The Nature of Conflict
4.Social Movements Revisited: Mediation of Contradictory Roles - Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Svetlana Peshkova

5.The Interface of Conflicts in West Africa: New Geopolitics and Emergence of Regional Powers - Tshikala Biaya
6.Post-Biafran Marginalization of the Igbo in Nigeria - Nnaemeka Ikpeze
7.Towards a Social History of Warfare and Reconstruction: The Nigerian-Biafran Case - Axel Harneit-Sievers and Sydney Emezue

Part III: Judicial Accountability
8.Truth and Justice for Human Rights Crimes: Latin America and Accountability - Juan Mendez
9. Truth in a Box: The Limits of Justice through Judicial Mechanisms - Julie Mertus
10. Justice for Women Victims of Violence: A Look at Rwanda After the 1994 Genocide - Binaifer Nowrojee and Regan Ralph

Appendix: Truth Commissions

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This work looks at the tensions that arise in post-conflict situations, and how people rebuild broken communities. It addresses questions of social justice as both ends and means of healing and reconciliation, and examines the nature and dynamics of conflict and judicial accountability.

About the Author

Ifi Amadiume is a award-winning poet and a political activist as well as an academic. She has lived in Nigeria and the UK and is currently associate professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover. There, she teaches in both the Department of Religion and the African-American Studies Programme. Professor Amadiume is author of the influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands (Zed Books, 1988) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year award in 1989.