Transitional justice in aparadigmatic contexts : accountability, recognition and disruption

• Main Authors: Destrooper, Tine, Gissel, Line Engbo, Carlson, Kerstin Bree
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2023
• Subjects: Law and Political Science; Social Sciences; HRC; Transitional Justice; Human Rights Law; Greenland
• Online Access: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01GKV746PP1P5WRXZVEJB1QGBN; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01GKV746PP1P5WRXZVEJB1QGBN; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003289104; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01GKV746PP1P5WRXZVEJB1QGBN/file/01HKMB65N29HNWNB4JV1T12DGH

This book explores the practical and theoretical opportunities as well as the challenges raised by the expansion of transitional justice into new and ‘aparadigmatic’ cases. The book defines transitional justice as the pursuit of accountability, recognition and/or disruption and applies an actor-centric analysis focusing on justice actors’ intentions of and responses to transitional justice. It offers a typology of different transitional justice contexts ranging from societies experiencing ongoing conflict to consolidated democracies, and includes chapters from all types of aparadigmatic contexts. This covers transitional justice in states with contested political authority, shared political authority, and consolidated political authority. The transitional justice initiatives explored by the wide range of contributors are those of Afghanistan, Belgium, France, Greenland/Denmark, Libya, Syria, Turkey/Kurdistan, UK/Iraq, US, and Yemen. Through these aparadigmatic case studies, the book develops a new framework that, appropriate to its expanding reach, allows us to understand the practice of transitional justice in a more context-sensitive, bottom-up, and actor-oriented way, which leaves room for the complexity and messiness of interventions on the ground. The book will appeal to scholars and practitioners in the broad field of transitional justice, as represented in law, criminology, politics, conflict studies and human rights.