David Backer

David Backer is an Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary (Virginia, USA) and a Visiting Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA). Joseph Lahouchuc recently graduated from the College of William & Mary with a BA in International Relations. James Long is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego (USA) and a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace

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Monday, June 21st, 2010

Addressing the Post-Election Violence: Micro-Level Perspectives on Transitional Justice in Kenya*

The necessity of transitional justice in Kenya and the merits of certain institutional mechanisms in particular have been vigorously debated in this forum, as well as within the country itself. In both of these contexts, the perspectives of victims of past violence have received only modest attention.

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