Suggested Reading on the Rule of Law and Transitional Justice

• Crisp, Jeff, Lessons Learned From the Implementation of the Tanzania Security Package, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit (EPAU), EPAU/2001/05, May 2001
• Da Costa, Rosa, Rights of Refugees in the Context of Integration: Legal Standards and Recommendations, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series No. 12, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Protection Operations and Legal Advice Section (POLAS), POLAS/2006/02, June 2006
• Da Costa, Rosa, The Administration of Justice in Refugee Camps: A Study of Practice, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series No. 10, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section (PPLA), PPLA/2006/01, March 2006
• Field, Ophelia (with the assistance of Alice Edwards), Alternatives to Detention of Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series No. 11, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Protection Operations and Legal Advice Section (POLAS), POLAS/2006/03, April 2006
• Hayner, Priscilla, Transitional Justice and Humanitarian Concerns: Background Note, International Center for Transitional Justice, May 2006
• Inter-Agency Working Group on Unaccompanied and Separated Children, Inter-Agency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children, ICRC/IRC/SCUK/UNICEF/UNHCR/World Vision, 2004
• Jaquemet, Stephane, Under What Circumstances Can a Person Who Has Taken an Active Part in the Hostilities of an International or a Non-International Armed Conflict Become an Asylum Seeker?, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series No. 6, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section (PPLA), PPLA/2004/01, June 2004
• Kapferer, Sibylle, The Interface Between Extradition and Asylum, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series No. 5, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section (PPLA), PPLA/2003/05, November 2003
• La Rosa, Anne-Marie, Humanitarian Organizations and International Criminal Tribunals, or Trying to Square the Circle, International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 88, No. 861, p. 169-186, March 2006 (external link)
• LeBlanc, Hubert, and Roy Herrmann, Joint Evaluation by the Government of Canada and UNHCR of the Deployment of RCMP Officers to Refugee Camps in Guinea, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit (EPAU), EPAU/2005/13, November 2005
• Leckie, Scott, Housing, Land and Property Rights in Post-Conflict Societies: Proposals for a New United Nations Institutional and Policy Framework, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series No. 8, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section (PPLA), PPLA/2005/01, March 2005
• UN Peacekeeping Best Practices Section (PBPS), Documents on: Legal and Judicial Systems (updated March 2006) (external link)
• United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), United Nations Peacekeeping Operations - Selected Special Reports (updated March 2005) (external link)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Access to Justice - An Overview (external link)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Checklist on the Restitution of Housing and Property, November 2001
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Final Report Concerning the Questionnaire on Statelessness Pursuant to the Agenda for Protection, March 2004
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Guidance UNHCR's "Imagine Coexistence", 2002
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Handbook for Registration. Procedures and Standards for Registration, Population Data Management and Documentation, Provisional Release, September 2003
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Handbook on Repatriation and Reintegration Activities, May 2004
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Handbook on Voluntary Repatriation, 1996 (currently being updated)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Human Rights Protection and the Rule of Law, in: "The State of the World's Refugees: A Humanitarian Agenda", Chapter 4: Return and Reintegration, 1997, p. 169 and 172
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Information and Accession Package entitled "The 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness", UNHCR/Division of International Protection, June 1996, revised January 1999
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCR's Activities in the Field of Statelessness: Progress Report, EC/55/SC/CRP.13/Rev.1, 30 June 2005
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme, Conclusion on Legal Safety Issues in the Context of Voluntary Repatriation of Refugees, No. 101 (LV) - 2004, 8 October 2004
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme, Standing Committee, Legal Safety Issues in the Context of Voluntary Repatriation, EC/54/SC/CRP.12, 7 June 2004
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Center for Conflict Management at the National University in Rwanda-University of Maryland Partnership, Guidance Workshop Statement: Rethinking Peace, Coexistence and Human Security in the Great Lakes, Kigali, 16-19 April 2002
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Refugee Protection: A Guide to International Refugee Law (Handbook for Parliamentarians), UNHCR/IPU, December 2001
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Nationality and Statelessness: A Handbook for Parliamentarians, No. 11, UNHCR/IPU, 2005
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Save the Children Alliance, Action for the Rights of Children (ARC): Critical Issues - Child Soldiers, September 2002
• United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rule-of-law tools for post-conflict States: Truth commissions, HR/PUB/06/1, 2006 (external link)
• United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rule-of-law tools for post-conflict States: Mapping the justice sector, HR/PUB/06/2, 2006 (external link)
• United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rule-of-law tools for post-conflict States: Monitoring legal systems, HR/PUB/06/3, 2006 (external link)
• United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rule-of-law tools for post-conflict States: Prosecution initiatives, HR/PUB/06/4, 2006 (external link)
• United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rule-of-law tools for post-conflict States: Vetting: an operational framework, HR/PUB/06/5 (external link)
• United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rule-of-law tools for post-conflict States: Reparations programmes, HR/PUB/08/1 (external link)
• United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rule-of-law tools for post-conflict States: Maximizing the legacy of hybrid courts, HR/PUB/08/2 (external link)
• United Nations Security Council, The rule of law and transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict societies. Report of the Secretary-General, UN Doc. S/2004/616, 23 August 2004

Updated March 2008