Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice

Lavinia Stan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. She is regional editor for Europe for the peer-reviewed Women's Studies International Forum (since 2010), a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of Romania Exile (in Bucharest, since 2010), a member of the Social Science Adjudicating Commission of the Romanian Ministry of Education (in Bucharest, since 2011) and a member of the editorial boards of eleven scholarly journals in Europe. Her books include Church, State, and Democracy in Expanding Europe (co-authored with Lucian Turcescu), 1989-2009: Incredibila aventura a democratiei dupa comunism (co-edited with Lucian Turcescu), Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Reckoning with the Communist Past, Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania (co-authored with Lucian Turcescu), Leaders and Laggards: Governance, Civicness and Ethnicity in Post-Communist Romania and Romania in Transition. Nadya Nedelsky is an Associate Professor of International Studies at Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota. She is author of Defining the Sovereign Community: National Identity, Individual Rights, and Minority Membership in the Czech and Slovak Republics; numerous chapters in edited volumes on transitional justice; articles in the journals Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnicities, Nations and Nationalism and Theory and Society; and the national report on the Czech and Slovak Republics commissioned by the European Commission Directorate General of Justice, Freedom and Security, titled How the Memory of Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes in Europe is Dealt with in the Member States.