Includes bibliographical references and index.

Challenging restorative justice: state-based conflict, mass victimisation and the changing nature of warfare / Holger-C. Rohne, Jana Arsovska and Ivo Aertsen -- Dealing with violent conflicts and mass victimisation: a human dignity approach / Finn Tschudi -- Prologue to the Kosovo drama: causes and consequences of a violent ethno-political conflict / Jana Arsovska, Marta Valiñas and Borbala Fellegi -- Criminal judicial qualification and prosecution in the Racak case according to national and international legislation: Albanian perspective / Haki Demolli -- Criminological views and informal responses to the Racak massacre according to Albanian customary law and the principles of international law: Albanian perspective / Rexhep Gashi -- Potential for the use of informal mechanisms and responses to the Kosovo conflict: Serbian perspective / Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic -- A restorative approach for dealing with the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict: opportunities and limits / Marta Valiñas and Jana Arsovska -- The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the second intifada: a cycle of violence / Holger-C. Rohne -- Courting the intifada: discussing legal perspectives / Khalid Ghanayim -- Israeli-Jewish cultural aspects of an event of violence: between biblical codes and Zionist ideology: Israeli perspective / Michal Alberstein -- Cultural aspects in responding to violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Palestinian perspective / George Irani -- Opportunities and limits for applying restorative justice in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Holger-C. Rohne -- The conflict in the DR Congo: a story of failed transitions and interlocking conflicts / Tyrone Savage and Kris Vanspauwen -- Decayed, decimated, usurped and inadequate: the challenge of finding justice through formal mechanisms in the DR Congo / Tyrone Savage and Olivier Kambala wa Kambala -- Between peace and justice: informal mechanisms in the DR Congo / Theodore Kasongo Kamwimbi -- Restorative justice and truth-seeking in the DR Congo: much closing for peace, little opening for justice / Kris Vanspauwen and Tyrone Savage -- Racak, Mahane Yehuda and Nyabyondo: restorative justice between the formal and the informal / Ivo Aertsen -- From micro to macro, from individual to state: restorative justice and multi-level diplomacy in divided societies / Jana Arsovska, Marta Valiñas and Kris Vanspauwen.

To what extent are the 'UN Basic Principles on the use of Restorative Justice programmes in criminal matters' still applicable in cases of mass violence? This text provides a comparative analysis of the potential of restorative justice approaches to dealing with mass victimization in the context of large-scale violent conflicts.