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Fifteen years after the end of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, discourses about the present and future are based upon revised and reconstructed narratives about the past. Therefore, the relationships between transitional justice, political ideologies and historical narratives are still contested and vague. Recent history in Serbia and Croatia is determined more by each nationality's collective emotional memory than by common factual history. This paper analyses the impact transitional justice mechanisms have on historical narratives and the creation of collective memory about the war. As the "existing empirical knowledge about the impacts of transitional justice is still limited", its influence on local societies is measured through its impact on political ideologies and historical narratives triggered by war crime trials. So far, in Serbia and Croatia the main transitional justice tool has been the prosecution of war crimes. We argue that transitional justice, instead of triggering truth seeking and truth telling processes that would lead to reconciliation, multiplied mutually exclusive historical narratives that determined national collective identities. Adapted from the source document.

This article, which was originally given as the third Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture at the University of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology, on 28 June 2000, examines some issues raised for the probation service by its roles both as part of the criminal justice system and as a participant in crime prevention partnerships. It suggests that some of the tensions between these roles have apparently been relieved by the criminal justice system articulating 'risk of reoffending' more clearly than previously as its primary rationale. There are, however, some problems raised for principles of fair punishment by a move from 'risk management' to 'risk control'. It is argued that adoption of a strong human rights culture would provide the basis for probation to contribute to public protection whilst retaining important values.

This article analyses the recent contestation over the Nile River due to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and its implications for the agrarian question and water justice. The article focuses on the commodification of the Nile by national governments, whereby technology, rationality, and regulations have become the driving force of the river's development. The engagement of civil society actors in the GERD dispute reveals several perceptions of "riverhood" of the Nile. As a result, water justice is heterogeneous and challenges building a wide-basin movement.

La vie intime -- Material and symbolic household management -- Networks of knowledge -- Reciprocity and retribution -- Local knowledge and state power -- Reading and writing stories of intimate violence -- Conclusion : "Men who kill and women who vote