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List of contents
Introduction: Resilience, adaptive peacebuilding and transitional justice Janine Natalya Clark and Michael Ungar; 1. Mapping the resilience field: A systemic approach Michael Ungar; 2. Conceptualising resilience in the context of transitional justice Wendy Lambourne; 3. A systemic analysis of resilience and transitional justice in a central Bosnian village Janine Natalya Clark; 4. Transitional justice as interruption: Adaptive peacebuilding and resilience in Rwanda Jennie E. Burnet; 5. Resilience, adaptive peacebuilding and transitional justice in post-conflict Uganda: The participatory potential of survivors' groups Philipp Schulz and Fred Ngomokwe; 6. The Birangonas (War Heroines) in Bangladesh: Generative resilience of sexual violence in conflict through graphic ethnography Nayanika Mookherjee; 7. Resilience in post-khmer rouge Cambodia: Systemic dimensions and the limited contributions of transitional justice Timothy Williams; 8. The personal and socio-economic dynamics of resilience and transitional justice in Colombia Sanne Weber; 9. Redressing injustice, reframing resilience: Mayan women's persistence and protagonism as resistance M. Brinton Lykes, Alison Crosby and Sara Beatriz Alvárez Medrano; 10. Transitional or transformational justice? Decolonial enactments of adaptation and resilience within Palestinian communities Devin G. Atallah and Hana R. Masud; 11. Fitting the pieces together: Implications for resilience, adaptive peacebuilding and transitional justice in practice Cedric de Coning.
About the author
Janine Natalya Clark is a Professor of Gender, Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law at the University of Birmingham. She has written three research monographs and her work has been published in a wide variety of journals. She is currently leading a European Research Council-funded research project about resilience and survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.Michael Ungar is a Family Therapist and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and 17 books on the subject of resilience for parents, researchers and mental health professionals.
Summary
This interdisciplinary volume, which includes eight case study chapters, offers a novel conceptual and empirical analysis of resilience, adaptive peacebuilding and transitional justice. It is the first volume of its kind to show how these three concepts can combine to inform individual and collective recovery from large-scale violence.
