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Builds on micro-level critiques of transitional justice to debate a more comprehensive alternative at the level of theory and practice.
List of contents
1. Introduction Paul Gready; Part I. Theories and Contexts: 2. From transitional to transformative justice: a new agenda for practice Simon Robins; 3. Predicaments of transformative justice in neoliberal and state-centric world order Richard Falk; 4. Rights and transformation Malcolm Langford; Part II. Building Bridges: 5. Measures of non-repetition in transitional justice: the missing link? Naomi Roht-Arriaza; 6. Between transition and transformation: legal empowerment as collective reparation Lars Waldorf; 7. Transformative gender justice? Fionnuala Ni Aolain; 8. Memory and democracy: towards a transformative relationship Elizabeth Jelin; Part III. New(er) Directions: 9. Connecting the egregious and the everyday: addressing impunity for sexual violence in Sri Lanka Chulani Kodikara; 10. Participation and transformative justice: reflections on the Brazilian experience Laura Trajber Waisbich and Vera Schattan P. Coelho; 11. The restitutional assemblage: the art of transformative justice at the Parramatta Girls Home, Australia Anna Reading; 12. Indivisibility as a way of life: transformation in micro-processes of peace in northern Uganda Pamina Firchow and Roger MacGinty; 13. HIJOS: breaking social silence with another kind of justice Marina Sitrin; 14. Conclusion: towards transformative justice.
About the author
Paul Gready is Professor of Applied Human Rights and Director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, and co-editor of the Journal of Human Rights Practice. His research interests include human rights practice, transitional justice, human rights and development, culture and human rights, and human rights cities. He is the author of The Era of Transitional Justice: The Aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and Beyond (2010).Simon Robins is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York. He is a humanitarian practitioner and researcher with an interest in humanitarian protection, human rights and transitional justice. He is the author of Families of the Missing: A Test for Contemporary Approaches to Transitional Justice (2013).
Summary
The book will appeal to a diverse audience, including advocates and sceptics, academics and practitioners, transitional justice specialists and readers from other sectors (development, peace-building and human rights), and to a genuinely multi-disciplinary cohort of scholars. Its value lies in its contribution to both conceptual and practice-based thinking on transformative justice.
