Contributors
Kirsten Ainley is a Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the coauthor, with Chris Brown, of Understanding International Relations , 4th edition (2009), as well as several book chapters and articles on aspects of international criminal law.
Edward Aspinall is a Professor of Politics in the Department of Political and Social Change at Australian National University, Canberra. He is the author of Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia (2009); Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in Indonesia (2005); The Helsinki Peace Agreement: A More Promising Basis for Peace in Aceh? East West Center, Policy Paper series (2003 and 2005); and The Peace Process in Aceh: Why It Failed (coauthored with Harold Crouch), as well as the editor of Problems of Democratisation in Indonesia: Elections, Institutions, and Society (coedited with Marcus Mietzner) (2010) and Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation & Democratisation (coedited with Greg Fealy) (2003).
Renée Jeffery is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University. She is the author of Amnesty and Accountability: The Persistence of Amnesties from Athens to Aceh, Indonesia (forthcoming); Reason and Emotion in International Ethics (forthcoming); Hugo Grotius in International Thought (2006); and Evil and International Relations: Human Suffering in an Age of Terror (2008) and theeditor of Confronting Evil in International Relations: Ethical Responses to Problems of Moral Agency (2008), as well as the author of numerous articles.
Lia Kent is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at the Australian National University. She has worked in, and conducted research on, East Timor, since 2000. Dr. Kent received her PhD in 2010 for a thesis entitled Justica Seidauk Mai (Justice Is Yet to Come): Rethinking the Dynamics of Transitional Justice in East Timor. She is the author of Transitional Justice and Local Realities: East Timor and Beyond (2012), as well as of several articles and book chapters.
Hun Joon Kim is a Senior Lecturer in the Griffith Asia Institute and Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University. Dr. Kim received his PhD in 2008 for a dissertation titled Expansion of Transitional Justice Measures: A Comparative Analysis of Its Causes , which was the winner of the 2009 American Political Science Association Best Dissertation Award (Human Rights Section). He is the author of several journal articles published in International Organization , International Studies Quarterly , Human Rights Quarterly , the Journal of Peace Research , the International Journal of Transitional Justice , Global Governance , and the Journal of Human Rights . He is the author of The Massacres at Mt Halla: Sixty Years of Truth-Seeking in South Korea (forthcoming).
Leigh A. Payne is Professor of Sociology (Latin American Societies) and a Fellow of St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford. She is also a faculty affiliate at the University of Minnesota Law School and was a Visiting Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Minnesota (2008–2011). She is the author of Brazilian Industrialists and Democratic Change (1994), Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right Wing and Democracy in Latin America (2000), and Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (2008). Her most recent coauthored book is Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy (2010). She has editedother volumes and written various book chapters and articles on human rights and transitions from authoritarian rule in Latin America and South Africa.
Kathryn Sikkink is Regents Professor and holds the McKnight Presidential Chair in Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The