Challenging restorative justice: state-based conflict, mass victimisation and the changing nature of warfare / Dealing with violent conflicts and mass victimisation: a human dignity approach / Prologue to the Kosovo drama: causes and consequences of a violent ethno-political conflict / Criminological views and informal responses to the Racak massacre according to Albanian customary law and the principles of international law: Albanian perspective / Potential for the use of informal mechanisms and responses to the Kosovo conflict: Serbian perspective / A restorative approach for dealing with the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict: opportunities and limits / The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the second intifada: a cycle of violence / Courting the intifada: discussing legal perspectives / Israeli-Jewish cultural aspects of an event of violence: between biblical codes and Zionist ideology: Israeli perspective / Cultural aspects in responding to violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Palestinian perspective / Opportunities and limits for applying restorative justice in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / The conflict in the DR Congo: a story of failed transitions and interlocking conflicts / Decayed, decimated, usurped and inadequate: the challenge of finding justice through formal mechanisms in the DR Congo / Between peace and justice: informal mechanisms in the DR Congo / Restorative justice and truth-seeking in the DR Congo: much closing for peace, little opening for justice / Racak, Mahane Yehuda and Nyabyondo: restorative justice between the formal and the informal / From micro to macro, from individual to state: restorative justice and multi-level diplomacy in divided societies