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What does justice look like in communities where state systems have failed, or never fully arrived? Across Africa, people have long turned to relational, restorative practices to address harm, repair relationships, and rebuild trust, often in ways that differ radically from state-based models.
This volume of the International Encyclopaedia of Restprative Justice brings together leading scholars and practitioners to explore how restorative justice is imagined, practiced, and contested across the African continent. You will encounter Indigenous justice mechanisms like gacaca and mato oput, alongside contemporary innovations responding to intercommunal and interpersonal conflict, war crimes, and offending behaviour. Through rich case studies and critical reflection, the chapters challenge Global North assumptions and centre African knowledge systems in global debates.
Whether you are a scholar, practitioner, or policymaker, this book offers fresh insights and practical approaches to think differently about justice. It reframes restorative justice not as a technical solution, but as a deeply relational, culturally grounded response to harm rooted in customary justice and histories of resilience and repair in the wake of colonisation.
This volume of the International Encyclopaedia of Restprative Justice brings together leading scholars and practitioners to explore how restorative justice is imagined, practiced, and contested across the African continent. You will encounter Indigenous justice mechanisms like gacaca and mato oput, alongside contemporary innovations responding to intercommunal and interpersonal conflict, war crimes, and offending behaviour. Through rich case studies and critical reflection, the chapters challenge Global North assumptions and centre African knowledge systems in global debates.
Whether you are a scholar, practitioner, or policymaker, this book offers fresh insights and practical approaches to think differently about justice. It reframes restorative justice not as a technical solution, but as a deeply relational, culturally grounded response to harm rooted in customary justice and histories of resilience and repair in the wake of colonisation.
Price: $271.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill | Nijhoff
Publication Date:
20 August 2026
ISBN: 9789004743151
Format: Hardcover
Kerry Clamp, Ph.D. (2010), is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has published widely on restorative justice, including Restorative Policing (2017), Restorative Justice in Transition (2014), and Restorative Justice in Transitional Settings (ed., 2016).
Hema Hargovan, Ph.D. (2008), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. She has published widely on crime, violence, victimisation, criminal, and restorative justice.
Julena Jumbe Gabagambi, Ph.D. (2022), is Assistant Lecturer in Law at the University of Iringa, Tanzania. She is a researcher on restorative justice in Africa generally and Tanzania in particular.
Don John O. Omale, Ph.D. (2008), is Professor of Criminology at the University of Derby, UK. He has published on restorative justice, violent extremism, and victimology, including Restorative Justice and Victimology (2012).
Hema Hargovan, Ph.D. (2008), is Senior Lecturer at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. She has published widely on crime, violence, victimisation, criminal, and restorative justice.
Julena Jumbe Gabagambi, Ph.D. (2022), is Assistant Lecturer in Law at the University of Iringa, Tanzania. She is a researcher on restorative justice in Africa generally and Tanzania in particular.
Don John O. Omale, Ph.D. (2008), is Professor of Criminology at the University of Derby, UK. He has published on restorative justice, violent extremism, and victimology, including Restorative Justice and Victimology (2012).