Recommended Readings
Below is a short selection of publications that we recommend as useful sources of analysis for each of IFIT’s three main issue areas: Law and Peace, Inclusive Narratives, and Transition Assistance. To see samples of IFIT’s own major publications on these issue areas, please see our Publications page.
Law and Peace
Law and Peace
1. "The Belfast Guidelines on Amnesty and Accountability."Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster, 2013.
Law and Peace
2. Bell, Christine. On the Law of Peace: Peace Agreements and the Lex Pacificatoria.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Law and Peace
3. Clark, Philip. The Gacaca Courts, Post-genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda: Justice without Lawyers.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Law and Peace
4. Conciliation Resources. Legitimacy and Peace Processes: From Coercion to Consent.Vol. 25. Accord. Conciliation Resources, 2014.
Law and Peace
5. Dziedzic, Michael J. Criminalized Power Structures: The Overlooked Enemies of Peace.Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Law and Peace
6. Freeman, Mark. Necessary Evils: Amnesties and the Search for Justice.New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Law and Peace
7. Hazan, Pierre. La Paix Contre La Justice?: Comment Reconstruire Un État Avec Des Criminels De Guerre.Bruxelles: GRIP, 2010.
Law and Peace
8. Huyse, Lucien, and Mark Salter. Traditional Justice and Reconciliation after Violent Conflict: Learning from African Experiences.Stockholm: International IDEA, 2008.
Law and Peace
9. Kritz, Neil J., ed. Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes.Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1995.
Law and Peace
10. Lederach, John Paul. Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies.Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2002.
Law and Peace
11. Mallinder, Louise. Amnesty, Human Rights and Political Transitions Bridging the Peace and Justice Divide.Oxford: Hart, 2008.
Law and Peace
12. Nino, Carlos Santiago. Radical Evil on Trial.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Law and Peace
13. Olsen, Tricia D., Leigh A. Payne, and Andrew G. Reiter. Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy.Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2010.
Law and Peace
14. Philpott, Daniel. Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation.New York: Oxford UP, 2012.
Law and Peace
15. Seibert-Fohr, Anja. Prosecuting Serious Human Rights Violations.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Law and Peace
16. Snyder, Jack, and Leslie Vinjamuri. “Trials and Errors: Principle and Pragmatism in Strategies of International Justice.”International Security 28, no. 3 (Winter 2003/04).
Law and Peace
17. Stover, Eric, and Harvey M. Weinstein. My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Law and Peace
18. UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights “Rule of Law Tools for Post-Conflict States”series (various).
Law and Peace
19. Van Schaack, Beth. "The Building Blocks of Hybrid Justice."SSRN Electronic Journal, March 22, 2016.
Law and Peace
20. Wolff, Stefan. "From Paper to Peace: The Role of Guarantees in Peace Agreements."World Politics Review. December 16, 2013.
Inclusive Narratives
Inclusive Narratives
1. Anderson, Benedict R. O’G. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.London: Verso, 1991.
Inclusive Narratives
2. Bardhan, Pranab. "Decentralization and Development: Dilemmas, Trade-offs and Safeguards."Lecture, IFPRI Conference on Decentralization, Washington, DC, February 2010. Accessed February 14, 2017.
Inclusive Narratives
3. Belloni, R. “Rethinking Nation-Building: The Contradictions of the Wilsonian Approach at Democracy Promotion."Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 7 (2007).
Inclusive Narratives
4. Bitar, Sergio, and Abraham F. Lowenthal. Democratic Transitions: Conversations with World Leaders.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2015.
Inclusive Narratives
5. Blagojevic, Bojana. “Peacebuilding in Ethnically Divided Societies”.Peace Review 19, no. 4 (2007): 555-62.
Inclusive Narratives
6. Call, Charles, and Vanessa Wyeth, eds. Building States to Build Peace.Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008.
Inclusive Narratives
7. Carothers, Thomas. “The End of the Transition Paradigm”.Journal of Democracy 13, no. 1 (2002): 5-21.
Inclusive Narratives
Chandler, David, and Timothy Sisk. Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding.S.l.: Routledge, 2015.
Inclusive Narratives
9. Department for International Development. Building Stability Framework.London: DFID, 2016.
Inclusive Narratives
10. Fritz, Verena, and Alina Rocha Menocal. Understanding State-Building from a Political Economy Perspective.Inclusive Narratives
11. Herbst, Jeffrey Ira., Terence McNamee, and Greg Mills. On the Fault Line: Managing Tensions and Divisions within Societies.London: Profile, 2012.
Inclusive Narratives
12. Huntington, Samuel P. Political Order in Changing Societies.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
Inclusive Narratives
13. Kaplan, Seth D. Fixing Fragile States: A New Paradigm for Development.Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008.
Inclusive Narratives
14. Linz, Juan J., and Alfred C. Stepan. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America and Post-communist Europe.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Inclusive Narratives
15. Lund, Michael S., 2009, 'Conflict Prevention: Theory in Pursuit of Policy and Practice',The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution, eds., J. Bercovitch, V. Kremenyuk, and I. W. Zartman, SAGE, London, pp. 287-308.
Inclusive Narratives
16. Migdal, Joel S. State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Inclusive Narratives
17. "National Dialogue Handbook."Berghof Foundation. March 16, 2017. Accessed April 06, 2017.
Inclusive Narratives
18. North, Douglass C., John Joseph. Wallis, Steven Benjamin Webb, and Barry R. Weingast. In the Shadow of Violence: Politics, Economics, and the Problems of Development.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Inclusive Narratives
19. Paris, Roland, and Timothy D. Sisk. The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations.London: Routledge, 2009.
Inclusive Narratives
20. Sacks, Jonathan. The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society.London: Continuum, 2009.
Inclusive Narratives
21. Schmitter, Philippe C. “Twenty-Five Years, Fifteen Findings."Journal of Democracy 21.1 (2009): 17-28.
Inclusive Narratives
22. Stepan, Alfred, Juan J. Linz, and Yogendra Yadav. "The Rise of "State-Nations".Journal of Democracy 21, no. 3 (2010): 50-68. doi:10.1353/jod.0.0187.
Inclusive Narratives
23. Stewart, Frances. Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies.Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Inclusive Narratives
24. Stuart, Elizabeth. Making Growth Inclusive: Some Lessons from Countries and The Literature.Oxford: Oxfam GB, 2011.
Transition Assistance
Transition Assistance
1. A New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States.Transitional Justice Institute International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding. 2008.
Transition Assistance
2. Barma, Naazneen, Elisabeth Huybens, and Lorena VinÌuela. Institutions Taking Root: Building State Capacity in Challenging Contexts.Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group, 2014.
Transition Assistance
3. Beall, J., T. Goodfellow, and D. Rodgers. "Cities and Conflict in Fragile States in the Developing World."Urban Studies 50, no. 15 (2013): 3065-083. doi:10.1177/0042098013487775.
Transition Assistance
4. Booth, David. "Aid, Institutions and Governance: What Have We Learned?"Development Policy Review 29 (2010). doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2011.00518.x.
Transition Assistance
5. Booth, David. "Governance for Development in Africa: Building on What Works."Africa Power and Politics. April 2011.
Transition Assistance
6. Carothers, Thomas, and Diane De Gramont. Development Aid Confronts Politics: The Almost Revolution.Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2013.
Transition Assistance
7. Crawford, Gordon. Foreign Aid and Political Reform A Comparative Analysis of Democracy Assistance and Political Conditionality.Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. doi:10.1057/9780230509245.
Transition Assistance
9. Ellerman, David P. Helping People Help Themselves: Toward a Theory of Autonomy-compatible Help.Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Development Economics, Office of the Senior Vice President, 2001.
Transition Assistance
11. Grindle, Merilee S. "Good Enough Governance Revisited."Development Policy Review 29 (2010). doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2011.00526.x.
Transition Assistance
12. Groves, Leslie, and Rachel Hinton, eds. Inclusive Aid: Changing Power and Relationships in International Development.London: Routledge, 2004.
Transition Assistance
13. Kaplan, Seth D. Betrayed: Politics, Power and Prosperity.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Transition Assistance
14. Kinsman, Jeremy, and Kurt Bassuener. A Diplomat's Handbook: For Democracy Development Support.3rd ed. Waterloo, ON Canada: CIGI, 2013.
Transition Assistance
15. Kleinfeld, Rachel. Advancing the Rule of Law Abroad: Next Generation Reform.Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2012.
Transition Assistance
16. McKay, John. "The Asian ‘Miracle’ After the Global Financial Crisis: Some Lessons For Africa."The Brenthurst Foundation, July 2010.
Transition Assistance
17. Natsios, Andrew. "The Clash of the Counter-bureaucracy and Development."Center for Global Development. July 13, 2010.
Transition Assistance
18. Sage, Caroline, Nicholas Menzies, and Michael J. V. Woolcock. Taking the Rules of the Game Seriously: Mainstreaming Justice in Development: The World Bank's Justice for the Poor Program.Washington, DC: Justice Reform Practice Group, The Legal Vice Presidency, The Work Bank, 2009.
Transition Assistance
19. Teskey, Graham. "Notes To Self For My First Overseas Visit!"A Governance Practitioner's Handbook: Alternative Ideas and Approaches, 27-40. OECD, 2015.
Transition Assistance
20. Unsworth, Sue. An Upside down View of Governance.Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, 2010.
Transition Assistance
21. Whitfield, Lindsay. Reframing the Aid Debate: Why Aid Isn't Working and How It Should Be Changed.Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), 2009.
Transition Assistance
22. Williams, Gareth, Alex Duncan, Pierre Landell-Mills, and Sue Unsworth. "Politics and Growth."Development Policy Review 29 (2010). doi:10.1111/j.1467-7679.2011.00519.x.