Abstract: Why are certain responses to past human rights violations considered instances of transitional justice while others are disregarded? This talk interrogates the history of the discourse and practice of the field to answer that question. Zunino argues that a number of characteristics inherited as transitional justice emerged as a discourse in the 1980s and 1990s have shaped which practices of the present and the past are now regarded as valid responses to past human rights violations.

We are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2019 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory, to be held on the 29th and 30th April 2019 at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

One of the gravest distortions of the discussion on the modern, liberal-democratic nation-state has been the prevalence of a secularist epistemology as the basis for this discussion. This epistemology serves the configuration of power of the nation-state by identifying it with the “secular” realm of rational politics, relegating “religion” to the realm of the irrational, private and apolitical.

The OxPeace Negotiation Training Workshop will take place from Monday 11 to Wednesday 13 March 2019 (09:30 to 17:30 each day), at Queen Elizabeth House, Mansfield Rd, Oxford.

This review sets out four main explanatory paradigms of penal policy— focusing on, in turn, crime, cultural dynamics, economic structures and interests, and institutional differences in the organization of different political economies as the key determinants of penal policy. We argue that these paradigms are best seen as complementary rather than competitive and present a case for integrating them analytically in a comparative political economy framework situated within the longue durée of technology regime change.