Transitional Justice for Child Soldiers

Accountability and Social Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Contexts. Palgrave MacMillan 2013. 

This book examines and offers suggestions for how post-conflict practices should conceptualize and address harms committed by child soldiers for successful social reconstruction in the aftermath of mass atrocity. 

Moral Accountability and International Criminal Law

Holding Agents of Atrocity Accountable to the World. Routledge 2012 (paperback 2013).

This book examines international criminal law from a normative perspective and lays out how responsible agents, individuals and the collectives they comprise, ought to be held accountable to the world for the commission of atrocity. 

Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring

Routledge 2014 (paperback 2015) 

This book presents a varied and critical picture of how the Arab Spring demands a re-examination and re-conceptualization of issues of transitional justice.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2022) "The Expressive Value of Prosecuting Aged Defendants: A Rebuke of Ageism." International Criminal Law Review. (Special Issue on the Aesthetics of Prosecuting Aged Defendants, edited by Mark Drumbl and Caroline Fournet) 22(1-2), 63-85. 

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2020), “The Problem with the Crime of Forced Migration as a Loophole to ICC Jurisdiction: the PTC’s decision on Myanmar and the risk to vulnerable populations.” Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies. 2(2): 385-409.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2020). "Messages from the Expressive Nature of ICC Reparations: Complex-Victims in Complex Contexts and the Trust Fund for Victims". International Criminal Law Review. 20(2): 318-345.  

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2020) "Defining a Relationship between Transitional Justice and Jus Post Bellum: A Call and an Opportunity for Post-Conflict Justice." Journal of International Political Theory. 16(3): 287-304.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2019). "International Criminal ‘Lawfare’ and its Potential Effects on Post-Conflict Positive Peace". International Criminal Law Review. 19(4): 724-745. 

Fisher, Kirsten J. and Laszlo Sarkany (2019). "Canada, the International Criminal Court and the Intersection of International Politics and Finances". International Journal. 74(2): 206-224. 

Fisher, Kirsten J. and Cristina G. Stefan (2019). "The ICC, R2P, and Canada's 'Return': Opportunity and Moral Duty in an Anti-Cosmopolitan Global Climate." Canadian Yearbook of Human Rights. 2. 3-19.  

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2018). "Africa’s Role in the Progression of International Criminal Justice: A Moral and Political Argument". Journal of Modern African Studies. 56(4): 541-568. 

Fisher, Kirsten J. and Cristina G. Stefan (2016). "The Ethics of International Criminal 'Lawfare'. " International Criminal Law Review. 16(2): 237-257.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2014) "Purpose-Based or Knowledge-Based Intention for Collective Wrongdoing in International Criminal Law?" International Journal of Law in Context. 10(2): (June) 163-176.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2010). "Identifying Liability: Ambiguous Charges in International Criminal Law." Finnish Yearbook of International Law. XIX. 127-156.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2009). "The Distinct Character of International Crime: Theorizing the Domain." Contemporary Political Theory. 8(1): (February) 44-67.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2006). "Rawls Revisited: Can International Criminal Law Exist?" Canadian Journal of Political Science. 39(2): (June) 407-420.

Fisher, Kirsten J. and Cristina Stefan (2019). "Canada and the International Responsibilities to Protect and Prosecute in Cases of Mass Atrocity". In David McGrane and Neil Hibbert (eds), Contemporary Canadian Political Theory, Toronto, University of Toronto Press.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2014). "Selectivity, Legitimacy and the Application of Post-Arab Spring International Criminal Justice." in Kirsten J. Fisher and Robert Stewart eds. Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring.

Fisher, Kirsten J. and Robert Stewart. (2014). "After the Arab Spring: A New Wave of Transitional Justice?" in Kirsten J. Fisher and Robert Stewart eds. Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring.

Bachmann, Klaus, Robert Stewart, and Kirsten J. Fisher (2014) "Risks and Rewards: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe's Transitional Justice Experiences." in Kirsten J. Fisher and Robert Stewart eds. Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2007). "Demanding Accountability: Judgment and Punishment in Ugandan ‘Restorative' Mechanisms." in Anita Singh and David McDonough eds. Defence to Development: Resolving Threats to Global Security. (Halifax: Centre For Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University). 163-196.

Fisher, Kirsten J. and Kathy Walker (2021) "Transitional Justice for Indigenous Peoples Should be a Key Federal Election Issue" The Conversation. Transitional justice for Indigenous Peoples should be a key federal election issue (theconversation.com)

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2021) "Can Justice in Kamloops Come Through the International Criminal Court?" Policy Options. Can justice in Kamloops come through the International Criminal Court? (irpp.org) 

Fisher, Kirsten J. and Laszlo Sarkany (2019). "International Criminal Court's Afghanistan Ruling Linked to Underfunding" Policy Options. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2019/international-criminal-courts-afghanistan-ruling-linked-underfunding/

Fisher, Kirsten J. and Laszlo Sarkany (2018). "Canada Should Increase Support for International Criminal Court." Policy Options. 2018-10-25 http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/october-2018/canada-increase-support-international-criminal-court/  

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2017). “The Trouble with the First Implementation of the ICC's Reparations Mandate.” Invited Contribution to Oxford Transitional Justice Research outlet, JusticeInfo.net Congo : The Challenges of the First Implementation of the ICC's Reparations Mandate - JusticeInfo.net

Akello, Grace, Kirsten J. Fisher and Zoe Goldstein (2014). "Silenced: Psychosocial Interventions and Neglected Priorities in War-Torn Northern Uganda." Innovia Foundation Newsletter. Issue 22: (January) 5-10.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2013) "Libya, the ICC, and Securing Post-Conflict Justice." InvitedContribution to the Middle East-Asia Project's (MAP) Featured Essays on TransitionalJustice. Middle East Institute. http://www.mei.edu/ (December) http://www.mei.edu/content/libya-icc-and-securing-post-conflict-justice

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2012) "Distinctly Arab? Transitional Justice in the Middle East and North Africa." Contribution to Justice in Conflict. Distinctly Arab? Questions about Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring (Part I) | Justice in Conflict and Distinctly Arab? Questions about Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring (Part II) | Justice in Conflict (September)

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2011). "The Lost Generation? Youth of Northern Uganda." Helsinki Review of Global Governance. 2(2): (September) 59-62.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2011). "Interpreting Intention: Collective Wrongdoing and International Criminal Law." International Journal of Arts and Sciences. 4(3): (February) 101-111.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2010). "Meandering Along the ICL Path: Where Are We Headed?" Invited Forum Contribution: Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. 2: 90-93.

Fisher, Kirsten J. (2007) "Demanding Accountability: Judgment, Punishment and Forgiveness in Ugandan Traditional Processes of Justice." Policy Brief: Canadian Consortium on Human Security. (February)