Towards a Unified Theory of Transitional Justice

Transitional Justice and Reconciliation: Theory and Practice

Philosophical Issues in Transitional Justice Theory: A (Provisional) Balance1

Transitional justice is becoming more and more an interdisciplinary field of study with interesting developments, not only in the assessment of a wide number of casestudies, but also in the evaluation of increasingly more articulated theoretical problems. Undoubtedly, a robust collection of literature has now accumulated also on the more theoretically-oriented side. The present essay, far from ...

What justice after war? Elements for a theory of transitional justice

Is it possible, after a conflict or genocide, to deliver justice and build a new political order acceptable to all sides previously set on destroying each other? Christian Nadeau looks at recent conflicts in Rwanda and in the former Yugoslavia, among others, to lay down the foundations of a theory of transitional justice. In his view a successful transition to democracy has to be based on repar...

Towards a Unified Theory of Imprecise Probability

Belief functions, possibility measures and Choquet capacities of order 2, which are special kinds of coherent upper or lower probability, are amongst the most popular mathematical models for uncertainty and partial ignorance. I give examples to show that these models are not sufficiently general to represent some common types of uncertainty. Coherent lower previsions and sets of probability mea...

Towards a Unified Theory of Timed Automata

Title of dissertation: TOWARDS A UNIFIED THEORY OF TIMED AUTOMATA Peter Christopher Fontana, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Professor Rance Cleaveland Department of Computer Science Timed automata are finite-state machines augmented with special clock variables that reflect the advancement of time. Able to both capture real-time behavior and be verified algorithmically (mo...