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Transitional justice has become the principle lens used by countries emerging from conflict and authoritarian rule to address the legacies of violence and serious human rights abuses. However, as transitional justice practice becomes more institutionalized with support from NGOs and funding from Western donors, questions have been raised about the long-term effectiveness of transitional justice mechanisms. Core elements of the paradigm have been subjected to sustained critique, yet there is much less commentary that goes beyond critique to set out, in a comprehensive fashion, what an alternative approach might look like. This volume discusses one such alternative, transformative justice, and positions this quest in the wider context of ongoing fall-out from the 2008 global economic and political crisis, as well as the failure of social justice advocates to respond with imagination and ambition. Drawing on diverse perspectives, contributors illustrate the wide-ranging purchase of transformative justice at both conceptual and empirical levels.
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.
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.
